KABUL, Dec. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Three persons were killed and two were injured Monday under Taliban's attack in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, a local official said Tuesday.

    "Yesterday afternoon, when a group of local police were discussing problems with local persons in Marja village of Nadali district, a group of Taliban in a corolla car opened fire to them and fled away. One police and two civilians were killed, two police were injured," Haji Mohaiuddin, the deputy governor of Helmand, told Xinhua.

    "The investigation is still going on, and no one has been arrested till now," he added.

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

    More than 1,500 people, with the majority of them Taliban, have been killed in Taliban-linked militancy this year. Enditem