Eleven members of one family were killed when a minibus hit a bomb buried in the road in southern Afghanistan, officials said today.

At least eight people were killed today in attacks in southern Afghanistan, including one incident where a suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up at a local intelligence office, officials said.

Roadside bombs have killed 14 Afghan civilians, five policemen and one member of the US-led international military coalition in southern Afghanistan, Afghan and Nato authorities said today.

French police have said they will storm the flat where the suspected Jewish school massacre gunman is holed up if he does not surrender.