KABUL, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Two Taliban bomb makers have been killed in a government forces' operation in Afghanistan's western province of Farah, authorities said Monday.

"Two Taliban improvised explosive device (IED) making experts by the names of Mullah Noorddin and Mullah Vali were killed in Afghan National Army airstrikes in Bala Buluk district, Farah Province," the Afghan Ministry of Defense said in a statement.

The targeted militants were responsible for launching landmine and IED blasts against security forces in Farah and neighboring Herat province.

Taliban militants use home-made IEDs to make roadside bombs, landmines, car bombs and suicide bomb jackets in their attacks which also inflict casualties on civilians.

On Jan. 7, 10 civilians were killed and 13 others wounded in an IED explosion in eastern province of Paktika.

The Taliban group has yet to made comments on the report.