JALALABAD, April 26: Four Afghan soldiers were killed and three were wounded after their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, a provincial governor said on Wednesday.

The soldiers were on a patrol in Daywagal, a village in troubled Kunar province, when the remote-controlled bomb ripped through their vehicle late on Tuesday, provincial governor Assadullah Wafa said.

Kunar shares a long, porous border with neighbouring Pakistan and officials regard it as a hotbed for Taliban militants and their Al-Qaeda allies.

Separately in the capital Kabul a rocket hit a neighbourhood close to the US embassy and wounded three civilians late Tuesday, police said.

On Monday eight suspected Taliban militants and one policeman were killed in two separate incidents in restive southern Afghanistan. —AFP