9 police killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan

9 police killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan - Xinhua | English.news.cn: 

In one attack, six Afghan Local Police (ALP) members were killed after Taliban militants attacked a security checkpoint in Baharak district of northern Badakhshan province, the provincial government spokesman Nawid Froutan told Xinhua.

The government established the ALP, or community police, in 2010 to protect villages and districts around the country where army and police have limited presence.

Local residents said the attackers arrived by a vehicle before the attack late on Friday night and took weapons and a police vehicle after killing the policemen in the province, 315 km north of Kabul.