A raid on a Taliban compound in southern Afghanistan in which a British soldier was killed also left 13 rebels dead and 16 others wounded, Afghan police said on Tuesday. The death of the British soldier was announced on Monday hours after the raid in Helmand province. Provincial police chief Nabi Mullahkhail told AFP on Tuesday that 13 Taliban were also killed and 16 wounded in the operation in the Garmser district. The British task force based in the Helmand capital Lashkar Gah said it could not confirm how many Taliban died. A “small number” of British soldiers were wounded but their lives were not in danger, a spokesman said. In a separate incident, police in Kabul detained a would-be suicide car-bomber after searching his vehicle near a NATO base.