Eight Afghan security personnel and a foreign soldier were among 10 people killed in a roadside bombing in the southern province of Kandahar.

Eight Afghan security personnel and a foreign soldier were among 10 people killed in a roadside bombing in the southern province of Kandahar, officials said Sunday.

The attack targeted an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldier, six Afghan policemen, two Afghan army soldiers and a translator working for the foreign forces were killed in the bombing.

An ISAF serviceman and another Afghan policeman were injured, provincial government spokesman Zalmai Ayoubi said.

Kandahar is the birthplace of the Taliban and remains a stronghold of the militants who have been fighting the government of President Hamid Karzai and its Western allies since being ousted from power a decade ago.

The explosion followed a series of violent bomb attacks and blasts across the country with a deadly incident in the same province on Thursday, which claimed the lives of two people.

Over the course of the past year, violence has spread from Afghanistan's volatile south to its relatively peaceful areas, despite the presence of some 130,000 foreign troops in the country.