(For more on Afghanistan, click on [ID:nAFPAK]) Aug 13 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 1730 on Thursday. * denotes new or updated items. KUNDUZ - Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former Afghan president and now a member of parliament, survived an ambush by Taliban insurgents in the Ali Abad district of northern Kunduz province, district chief Habibullah Mohtashim said. No one in Rabbani's convoy was hurt but three fighters died in a clash with his bodyguards and police, Mohtashim said. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack. HELMAND - Nine civilians were killed by a roadside bomb in the Nahr Saraj district of southern Helmand province on Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said. Helmand provincial government spokesman Daoud Ahmadi put the death toll at 11. HELMAND - Three British soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb while on foot patrol near Sangin in Helmand province, the British Defence Ministry said. KANDAHAR - In Kandahar in the south, a landmine planted by insurgents killed three teenage boys playing outside an orphanage on Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said. KUNDUZ - Taliban guerrillas clashed with police in the Dasht-e-Archi district of Kunduz for the second night in a row, Kunduz police chief Abdul Razaq Yaqubi said. Three policemen and eight militants were killed, he said. * SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN - One U.S. service member with the NATO-led force was killed in by direct fire in southern Afghanistan, the alliance and the U.S. military said. SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN - A roadside bomb killed an American service member on Wednesday in southern Afghanistan, NATO-led forces said. URUZGAN - Afghan and foreign forces killed two insurgents and wounded three in a clash with the militants during a patrol in the Deh Rawood district of southern Uruzgan province on Wednesday, the Defence Ministry said. NIMROZ - Afghan police shot and killed a would-be suicide bomber as he tried to drive an explosives-laden car into a police compound in Zaranj, the provincial capital of southwestern Nimroz, the Interior Ministry said. A subsequent explosion wounded one policeman, it said. (For more Reuters coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan, see: http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/afghanistanpakistan) (Compiled by Sayed Salahuddin and Jonathon Burch; Editing by Paul Tait)
Mourners react as the coffins of four soldiers killed in Afghanistan are driven though the streets of Wootton Bassett, in Wiltshire in south west England August 13, 2009. Four British soldiers ...
