30 December 2010 Last updated at 10:01 GMT 
Fourteen Afghan civilians, including women and children, have died as their minibus hit a roadside bomb in southern Helmand province, Afghan officials say.
Four others were injured when the vehicle was hit by a Taliban-planted bomb, Dawood Ahmady, a spokesman for Helmand's governor, told the BBC.
The blast happened in the Nahr-e Saraj district, said Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf).
The Taliban have used such bombs to kill hundreds of soldiers and police.
The BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul says the device went off in an area not far from an Afghan National Army base.
Violence is at its worst in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion of 2001.
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