Five civilians and one soldier from the US-led coalition were killed when a suicide bomber attacked a military convoy as it drove through a town in southern Afghanistan, officials said today.

Police say a suicide bomber has killed 10 civilians in southern Afghanistan.

An Afghan police chief said a suicide car bomber attacked international troops in Helmand province, killing three Afghan civilians.

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a housing compound in southern Afghanistan today, killing a policeman and wounding eight other people, including two children, a provincial police chief said.