Fourteen people were killed in two separate explosions in Afghanistan.

Fourteen people were killed in two separate explosions in Afghanistan.

Seven people, including six women, were killed in an explosion in Nawa district of Helmand province inside a house used by a local Taliban commander Mullah Manan, a senior security official said.

"We have intelligence that the Taliban commander was making bombs inside the house," Mohammad Ismail Hotak told Agence France Press.

In the volatile Nawzad district of the same province a group of seven Taliban militants died while trying to cut a pipe bomb and fit it into a vehicle on Monday, provincial spokesman Daud Ahmadi told AFP.

"The explosive-packed pipe detonated killing a Taliban commander along with six of his fighters," he said.