Five Taliban militants were killed Saturday in the bomb attack by Coalition forces in Afghan southern province of Uruzgan, a local official said Sunday.

"Yesterday evening a group of Taliban militants attacked a military post in Dehrawod district. After the firefight with the local police, Taliban escaped to the mountain. Under the request of Afghan police, Coalition forces used air force to bomb Taliban hideout, and killed five militants," Haji Yar Mohammad Khan, the district chief told Xinhua.

"There is no casualty in Afghan and Coalition side," he added.

Uruzgan, together with Kandahar, Helmand and Zabul, the former stronghold of Taliban regime, has become the hotspot of the militancy since the beginning of this year.

A suicide attacker blew himself on Sunday noon when a US convoy was passing by in the southern Kandahar province. The attacker was killed, and three civilians were injured.

Taliban militants, after the attack in Hazar Joft district of Helmand province on Friday, occupied and destroyed the district administrative building and the police department. Seven policemen and five Taliban militants were killed, six police were injured in the firefight.

More than 1,500 people, with the majority of them Taliban militants, were killed in Taliban-linked militancy since the beginning of this year.

Source: Xinhua