5 killed, 8 injured in Taliban attack in S Afghanistan

Five people including four suspected Taliban militants were killed and eight people including five NATO soldiers were wounded in a Taliban coordinated attack on a NATO- led Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in south Afghanistan's Kandahar city on Thursday, officials said on Friday. "All four armed attackers, who hold up a three-storey empty building Thursday afternoon and begun firing on a nearby Coalition 's PRT base in Kandahar city, have been killed and the situation was under control late on Thursday night," Kandahar provincial police Chief General Abdul Raziq told Xinhua on Friday. "One American civilian contractor and two Afghan security guards were injured, one Afghan interpreter was killed, and five ISAF service members were slightly wounded as a result of the attack," the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement on Friday. ISAF's Provincial Reconstruction Team is a civilian military unit involved in reconstruction process and strengthening security affairs. Currently, there are some 27 NATO-led ISAF PRTs around the insurgency-hit Afghanistan. "The insurgents fired multiple rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire from a single compound across from the camp at about 2:30 p.m. Thursday. There was no attempt to breach Camp Nathan Smith (PRT base)," according to the ISAF statement.