Six children, five soldiers and a civilian have died in separate bomb blasts in Afghanistan today, officials said.
The children and the civilian were killed when a bomb planted in a rubbish bin exploded in Tirin Kot, capital of Afghanistan's southern province of Uruzgan, police said.
Four other children who were playing nearby were wounded, police spokesman Farid Ayel said.
He said there was no obvious target for the bombing, although the home of a local police commander was nearby.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but this type of attack is regularly blamed on Taliban insurgents seeking to overthrow the Western-backed government of President Hamid Karzai.
Mr Karzai condemned the killings, blaming them on "terrorists".
Earlier in the day, five NATO soldiers were killed in two roadside bomb blasts, also in southern Afghanistan.
Three NATO soldiers died yesterday. NATO's US-led International Security Assistance Force did not release the nationalities of the soldiers, in keeping with policy.
A spokesman said details would be released by the soldiers' home countries.
More than 560 foreign troops were killed last year in Afghanistan, where some 130,000 US-led troops are fighting an insurgency by hardline Taliban Islamists against the Western-backed government of President Hamid Karzai.
