Ghazni, Afghanistan ? A NATO vehicle rolled over a mine Thursday in eastern Afghanistan, triggering a blast that killed one soldier, the 90th foreign military fatality in a year of surging violence.

The United Nations, meanwhile, said it had suspended shipments of food aid to seven volatile provinces after 85 of its trucks were attacked, set ablaze or looted in the last year by Taliban insurgents and thieves.

Fighting is intensifying, especially in the country’s south, as militants engage in daily battles with foreign and Afghan troops trying to support the embattled government of President Hamid Karzai.

The NATO soldier died after his vehicle struck a pressure-plated mine in Andar district of Ghazni province, military officials said. Four others were wounded, including three treated at the scene for minor injuries, a NATO statement said.

The U.N. said it halted food aid deliveries to a swath of the south and west about four weeks ago due to the attacks on its trucks.

The U.N. World Food Program would run out of food for its programs in the next few weeks in the seven provinces supplied by truck from Pakistan, said Richard Corsino, the program’s director in Afghanistan.

He said that while people would not starve or migrate because of the halted deliveries, they may be forced to sell their possessions to get by.

WFP lost about 600 tons of wheat and cooking oil worth $400,000 in 25 incidents since June 2006, including 13 in the past three months, compared with no incidents in the first half of 2006, Corsino said.

The shipments are made in unmarked, contracted trucks, but are still hit by thieves.