Two NATO soldiers were injured when a mine struck their convoy in Afghanistan's southern Zabul province on Sunday, a spokesman of NATO troops said.

The mine, which was planted by militants and remotely controlled, damaged four vehicles and wounded two soldiers in Mizan district, Andre Salloum told reporters in Kandahar.

He did not comment if there were any casualties on the insurgents.

Meantime, a purported Taliban spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadi said the Taliban had carried out the attack and two Taliban fighters were killed in a conflict after the explosion.

More than 3,900 people, mostly Taliban militants, have been killed in Afghanistan this year.

Source: Xinhua