LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Units of Afghan army stormed a Taliban detention center in Washir district of the southern Helmand province on Saturday night and set free seven detainees, said an army statement on Sunday.

All the rescued detainees were civilians abducted by the armed militants, the statement said, adding the detention center was destroyed.

During the operations, a Taliban militant was killed and a vehicle destroyed, the statement added.

It was the second crackdown on Taliban detention center over the past week.

In the previous attack, the security forces overrun a Taliban detention center in Chahar Dara district of the northern Kunduz province Thursday night, releasing five persons.

Taliban outfit has yet to make comment.