Afghani roadside bombs kill 6 children ROADSIDE bombs have killed four young girls and two schoolboys in Afghanistan while a police inspector has been gunned down on her way to work. The girls, aged 10 to 12, had been sent by their families to a river to fetch water for a wedding being held in a home on the outskirts of the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah, Helmand governor's spokesman Ummar Zawaq said on Thursday. The bomb went off alongside a footpath through a field the girls had taken to make their way back home, Zawaq said. Also in Lashkar Gah on Thursday morning, two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a female police inspector being taken to work by her son-in-law on his motorcycle, he said. Inspector Islam Bibi was rushed to the hospital with her wounds but died there about an hour later. Her son-in-law was also wounded. And in the eastern province of Paktika, two schoolboys were killed on their way walking home from classes in the afternoon when they triggered a roadside bomb, the governor's office said in a statement. Meanwhile, the NATO-led coalition said one of its service members was killed in fighting on Thursday in western Afghanistan. It gave no further details. In other violence on Thursday, 11 Taliban militants were killed in two different operations in the province of Lowgar, just south of Kabul, and seven others were wounded, the Ministry of Defense said. One Afghan soldier was also killed.