A clash between Taliban militants and guards of a private security company left 10 people dead in Ghazni province of Afghanistan Thursday, police said.

'The clash occurred in Andar district and as a result seven guards of the company Watan Risk and three Taliban rebels were killed,' provincial police chief Khayalbaz Shirzai told Xinhua.

Three guards of the company, which provides security to the logistic convoys of NATO-led forces in the southern provinces, sustained injury in the gun battle.