| A bomb exploded in Afghanistan on Wednesday and killed two civilians while 28 militants and two Afghan soldiers died in clashes, authorities said. The blast and the fighting took place in the south of the country. In Kandahar city, explosives, fixed to a motorbike, were detonated remotely as an Afghan army convoy passed, said regional army commander General Shair Mohammad Zazai. Two civilians were killed and three wounded, while five Afghan soldiers were hurt, he told AFP. Heavy fighting erupted in the neighbouring province of Helmand late on Tuesday when gunmen attacked Afghan soldiers protecting the police who were destroying illegal opium crops, the provincial government said. "Eighteen militants were killed and two Afghan army soldiers were martyred," provincial spokesman Daud Ahmadi told AFP. Two Westerners training the counternarcotics team were also wounded in the fight, he said. Three British soldiers were also killed in southern Afghanistan as a result of an 'enemy explosion' on Wednesday, Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) said. The soldiers were killed during an escort operation in the Gereshk district of Helmand province. |