One British soldier with the NATO-led force fighting the Taliban-led insurgency in southern Afghanistan was killed and other five suffered injuries when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle, a statement of the International Security Assistant Force alliance released Monday said.

The British Ministry of Defense confirmed that a mine hit the solders’ vehicle Sunday northeast of Musa Qala, a town in northern Helmand province that had been in Taliban’s possession for 10 months until U.S. British and Afghan forces retook it last month.

The five soldiers who suffered non-life threatening injuries were airlifted to NATO bases for medical treatment, the ministry statement said, according to the Associated Press.

A number of 760 foreign soldiers, of which 87 British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since the start of operations in October 2001.

The same kind of incident took place on Saturday when five civilians were killed and three wounded in Kandahar province’s Panjwayi district after their taxi hit a roadside bomb, a local government leader, Shah Baran said quoted by the Associated Press. ISAF gave no details about the nationalities of those involved. The 39-nation force leaves this up to the soldiers’ government to announce. However, it is already known that most of the alliance’s soldiers in the south of Afghanistan are from Britain, the United States, Canada and the Netherlands.

Last year was the deadliest year in Afghanistan since 2001 and officials have said 2008 will also be tough.