Roadside bomb kills 1, injures 7 in Afghanistan

At least one police officer was killed and seven civilians injured by a bomb blast Monday in northern Afghanistan, dpa cited police as saying.
The bomb was planted in a square in Baghlan-e-Markazi district, said Javid Basharat, a police spokesman for Baghlan province.
Separately, an Afghan army soldier was killed and six others were injured in an apparently accidental helicopter crash in southern Uruzgan province, a local government office said.
The incident took place in Gizab district late Sunday, when an Afghan army helicopter crashed into a wall at a military base, it said.