Afghan governor survives attempt

A road side bomb also killed six Afghan militiamen hired by US-led forces in eastern Paktia province Friday.

The men, part of a militia force which patrols eastern Afghanistan along with US-led forces, were killed when their car, part of a US-led military convoy, hit the remote-controlled device in Aryoob Zazi district, police said.

Other fighters with the extremist outfit meanwhile detonated a bomb against Afghan soldiers in the south of the country that wounded six, in the latest in a campaign of Taliban attacks on security forces.

Police announced they had killed three Taliban in a gunfight Friday that repelled an attack on a police patrol in the east, while Nato said two of its soldiers were wounded in an attack in the north.