BRITISH soldiers have killed five suspected Taleban fighters in an operation in Afghanistan's troubled Helmand province. The troops joined coalition forces for the raid on a village in the south-west of the country. A Ministry of Defence spokesman said last night the operation was looking for evidence of Taleban militants. "There has been a coalition-led cordon-and-search operation involving UK troops in Nowzad in north Helmand. Five Taleban have been killed and two detained. There were no UK casualties." There was no let-up in the fighting, meanwhile, with at least 28 people killed, including four in an attempt to blow up Kandahar's provincial governor.