NATO soldier, Afghan policeman killed in two separate blasts in Afghanistan

A NATO soldier and an Afghan policeman were killed in two separate blasts in Afghanistan on Tuesday.

According to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the soldier died following a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan.

The Afghan police officer, for his part, was killed in Balkh province in northern Afghanistan when an improvised explosive device struck a police vehicle.

Meanwhile, an explosion took place in the capital Kabul in a traffic police vehicle in a congested area of the city centre, but there were no casualties. The city's criminal investigation police chief Mohammad Zahir said that it was either a small magnetic bomb in the vehicle or a technical problem that caused the sound.