Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A roadside bomb blast Saturday killed 15 people, including eight children, in a volatile province in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Interior said.
The explosion followed a suicide bombing hours earlier in eastern Afghanistan that killed a commander of a police force and two others.
The explosion in the south occurred when "a civilian vehicle hit a roadside mine" in the Lahore district of Kandahar province, the ministry said in a statement.
Four people, including a woman, were wounded in the explosion, the statement said.
Once considered a stronghold, the Taliban has been losing its grip on Kandahar in recent months. But it continues to keep its grip on eastern Afghanistan.
Earlier, a suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a police station in the Khost province, killing three people, said Arif Pashton, a provincial council member.
There were conflicting reports about whether a child was among the dead in that explosion.
Pashton said all three killed were police officials but Hedayetullah Hamidi, the acting chief at Khost hospital, said one of the fatalities was a child.
He said 23 people were wounded.
Conflicting casualty reports are not uncommon in the aftermath of an attack.
Among the dead, according to Pashton, is the commander of Khost's quick reaction police force -- a special operations unit.
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