A blast rocked Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province on Sunday morning, causing no casualties, police said.

"There was a blast in Sanzarai area of Zhari district in the wee hours Sunday but it was a controlled explosion" a police official in Kandahar city told Xinhua.

The police official said Afghan and NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) security forces discovered and detonated a handful of explosives at around 8:30 a.m. local time Sunday, but no one was injured.

Erlier local media reported that a blast rocked Kandahar city, however, the police source said there was no explosion in city, some 450 km south of capital city of Kabul.

"The explosive were planted by suspected insurgents to target Afghan and foreign forces in the area but their vicious plan have been foiled," the source said.

Afghan people are war-weary and any big bang caused panic among them.

A total of 10 Afghan local policemen were killed and another injured when their vehicle ran over a roadside bomb in neighboring Helmand province on Thursday.

Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility for Thursday attack that occurred in Helmand's Nad Ali district in the province, some 555 km south of Kabul.