Kabul, Aug 13 - Fourteen people were killed in two roadside blasts in southern Afghanistan, a media report said Thursday quoting officials.

A blast on a road in the Gereshk district of Helmand province killed 11 people, said Daud Ahmadi, the spokesman for the provincial governor, Dawn news reported.

'The Taliban are planting these bombs on the main roads, which are killing our civilians,' Ahmadi said.

In the neighbouring Kandahar province, three children were killed while playing with a bomb, which they had found on a road west of the provincial capital, police official Mohammad Shah Khan said.