May 27 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan reported in the past 24 hours:

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*DEL ARAM - A roadside bomb ripped through a bus and killed eight civilians, including a woman and a child, in Del Aram district of western Farah province on Tuesday, deputy provincial governor, Mohammad Younus Rasuli said.

LOGAR - Four Afghan police were killed on Tuesday when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in Logar province to the south of capital, Kabul, a provincial officer said.

*LOGAR - More than one thousand people blocked a highway linking Kabul with the southeastern areas on Tuesday in protest over the killing of a school teacher by U.S.-led forces in an overnight raid in Logar. An Afghan official working for the U.S. military said the victim had links with Taliban insurgents.

GHAZNI- Five Taliban and two police died in a clash on Monday in a district of Ghazni, which lies to the southwest of Kabul, a district official said on Tuesday.

KANDAHAR - Gunmen on Tuesday freed four Afghan employees of a foreign-funded health group they had kidnapped in the southern province of Kandahar on Monday.

KANDAHAR - Two police officers in a remote area of the province were killed by a Taliban raid on a police post on Monday.

(Compiled by Sayed Salahuddin; Editing by Valerie Lee)

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