Eight policemen were killed when their post was attacked by Taliban militants in Afghanistan's north-eastern Badakhshan province, a provincial spokesman said on Wednesday. "A group of Taliban militants stormed a hilltop police post in Warduj district," provincial governor spokesman Abdul Maroof Rasekh said. Two Taliban insurgents were killed in the attack. Two policemen and two militants were also wounded in the four-hour battle. A policeman remains missing, according to a report of DPA. In a separate incident, a soldier with the NATO-led military coalition was killed on Wednesday in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the coalition said.
