July 9 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 1700 GMT on Thursday. * denotes new or updated item. LOGAR - At least 25 people, including 15 school students, were killed in a blast in Logar province, south of Kabul, government officials said. The explosives were hidden in a truck which overturned near a school overnight. Police were checking the truck when the blast happened. ZABUL - Afghan security forces killed almost 30 Taliban guerrillas in an ambush in southern Zabul province overnight, army General Sher Mohammad Zazai said. NURISTAN - Taliban fighters took over government buildings in a remote district of eastern Nuristan province, provincial police chief Mohammad Qasim said. Insurgents killed eight police and abducted eight in an attack there on Tuesday. * EASTERN AFGHANISTAN - A bomb attack on a convoy killed one soldier from the NATO-led force and wounded three in eastern Afghanistan, the alliance said in a statement. SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN - A soldier from the NATO-led force was killed by a roadside bomb in the south of the country, the alliance said in a statement. SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN - An explosion killed two soldiers from the NATO-led force in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the alliance said. (Compiled by Sayed Salahuddin; Editing by Paul Tait)
An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier walks at a temporary checkpoint on a road in the mountains of Wardak Province in Afghanistan July 9, 2009. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN POLITICS CONFLICT MILITARY) ...
