KABUL, April 8 (Xinhua) -- A soldier of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed and another one injured by a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan on Sunday morning, an ISAF spokeswoman Maria Carl said.

    She announced the latest ISAF fatality at a press conference here, but did not give any information on detailed location of the incident and the nationality of the soldiers.

    About 4,500 ISAF and 1,000 Afghan soldiers are carrying out a major offensive dubbed Operation Achilles in northern Helmand in southern Afghanistan, a stronghold of Taliban militants.

    Some 36,000 ISAF soldiers are deployed in this country to fight Taliban and other anti-government insurgents.

    Due to rising Taliban-linked insurgency, over 700 people, mostly Taliban militants, have been killed in Afghanistan this year.