Security forces killed 18 people including 14 militants in Taliban hotbed Helmand province in south Afghanistan, police said Monday.

"Security forces with the support of air power stormed a Taliban hideout in Kajaki Alya district Sunday as a result 18 people including 14 Taliban rebels and four civilians were killed," a senior police officer Kamaludin Khan told Xinhua.

However, he did not provide more details.

Meantime, locals say that NATO's aircraft stuck a house on Sunday where Taliban militants had meeting.

On the other hand, a local who declined to be identified stressed that the strike injured eight civilians including two children and a woman and some of them had been taken to Kandahar' s Mir Wais hospital for medical treatment.

In a related development, five more Taliban militants were killed and two others injured in clash with police in Khashrod district of the neighboring Nimroz province Monday, provincial police chief Abdul Jabar Puduli said.