Kabul, Sha'ban 25, 1434, Jul 4, 2013, SPA - Afghan officials say four girls were killed by a roadside bomb in the country's south while on their way home after being sent out to fetch water. Helmand governor's spokesman Ummar Zawaq says the girls, aged 10 to 12 years, were on their way home in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah when the bomb went off on Thursday morning. The Ministry of Defense says 11 Taliban militants were killed in two different operations in the province of Lowgar, just south of Kabul, and seven others were wounded. One Afghan soldier was also killed, according to a report of the Associated Press. --SPA 12:49 LOCAL TIME 09:49 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/1126432