FACTBOX - Security developments in Afghanistan

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 12 p.m. British time on Friday.

HELMAND - Two British soldiers were killed in separate incidents in southern Helmand province on Thursday, Britain's Ministry of Defence said in a statement. One was killed by a roadside bomb and the other was shot.

ZABUL - Two civilians were wounded when a shell exploded in a scrap metal shop in southern Zabul province, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

GERESHK - A roadside bomb killed one civilian in Helmand's Gereshk district on Thursday, the Interior Ministry said.

GHAZNI - Two policemen were killed and five wounded when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in the Giro district of south-eastern Ghazni province on Thursday, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

GHAZNI - U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops killed several Taliban insurgents and detained four during a raid on a compound in the same district of Ghazni overnight, the U.S. military said in a statement. One insurgent was wounded, it said.

GHAZNI - Six Taliban were killed and one policeman was wounded when militants attacked a government building in Ghazni's Arjestan district overnight, a local official said.

(Compiled by Hamid Shalizi; Editing by Paul Tait)