A suicide bomber blew himself up near a group of Afghan military vehicles on Saturday, killing two soldiers and a child, reported dpa.
Five civilians were wounded in the atack, which occured at around noon in the Marja district of the southern province of Helmand, police chief Mohammad Hussain Andiwal said.
In a related development, the International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF), Afghan order police and a Pakistani military unit each reported receiving indirect fire at about 1600 GMT Thursday.
"ISAF forces tracked the fire to two points within Afghanistan and returned fire with artillery and one GBU-13 bomb dropped from an F-15 aircraft." an ISAF press release said.
As a result of the firefight, four Afghan border police officers and eight Pakistani military members were wounded, ISAF officials said. dpa jp ms