The attack came after the bus driver ignored demands from the militants to stop as he drove along a road in the troubled Gereshk district of Helmand province.
A man and a child were killed, and eight women, four men and four children were injured, provincial spokesman Daud Ahmadi said.
"The Taliban waved to the bus to stop. The driver didn`t stop and the Taliban opened fire. Two people, one of them a child, were killed," Ahmadi told AFP.
The driver sped away from the scene after the shooting and reached a nearby police post, where the wounded were evacuated to hospital, Ahmadi said.
The Taliban are leading an insurgency using tactics including suicide attacks, roadside bombs and the intimidation of local people across Afghanistan, although their traditional heartland is in the south.
They often stop civilian buses and other vehicles hunting for government employees and members of the Afghan security forces.
The United Nations says 1,462 civilians were killed in the Afghan war during the first half of this year and insurgents were responsible for 80 percent of the deaths.
(Uu.H-AK)
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