Kabul: A roadside bomb killed a US-led coalition soldier in eastern Afghanistan today, while a suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a border police patrol in the south, killing a policeman, officials said.

Clashes and another roadside bomb left nine people dead elsewhere in the country. In the eastern blast, two other US-led coalition soldiers were wounded when the roadside bomb hit their vehicle in Kot district of Nangarhar province, the coalition said in a statement.

The troops were responding to a call from the local police who had discovered another explosive device nearby, when the second bomb exploded, the statement said.

The nationality of the dead and the wounded soldiers were not released. The majority of the troops in that area are American. A suicide attacker in the south, meanwhile, attacked a border police patrol also today, leaving a policeman dead and four other officers wounded in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province, said border security police commander Gen Abdul Raziq.

In neighbouring Helmand province, police discovered and tried to defuse a remote-controlled bomb today in Nad Ali district, but it exploded, killing two policemen and two civilians, said provincial police chief Mohammad Hussain Andiwal.

Four other civilians were wounded.

Source : PTI