South Asia News

Three police, Afghan child killed in a bomb blast

Oct 14, 2011, 19:19 GMT

Kandahar, Afghanistan - Three Afghan border police officers and one child were killed Friday in a car bombing in volatile southern Afghanistan, an official said.

An Afghan border police post was targeted in the bombing in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province Friday evening, a spokesman for the Kandahar governor said.

Three other police and two civilians were injured in the explosion and had been taken to a district hospital, a statement said.

The governor's office condemned the attack.

Meanwhile two foreign soldiers were killed in two separate incidents on Friday, the NATO-led coalition said in a statement.

One soldier died during an operation, while another died following a roadside bomb blast.

Both incidents took place in eastern Afghanistan. The coalition did not say where the soldiers were from. More than 130,000 international soldiers are currently fighting the decade-long Taliban insurgency following the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan.