An explosion that hit a Nato vehicle in southern Afghanistan today killed a British soldier and woundws five others.
The British Ministry of Defence said the soldiers' vehicle was hit by a mine yesterday northeast of Musa Qala, a town in northern Helmand province that had been held by the Taliban for 10 months until last month.
Eighty-seven British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since the start of operations in October 2001.
On Saturday, five civilians were killed and three wounded in Kandahar province's Panjwayi district after their taxi hit a roadside bomb, a local government leader said.
Militants also attacked a convoy of trucks carrying gravel to a Nato base in Helmand, killing four drivers and two security guards, it was reported.