Updated: 14 December 2009 15:34 | By pa.press.net

16 policemen killed in gun battles

Sixteen Afghan police officers have been killed in two gun battles

Sixteen Afghan police officers have been killed in two gun battles

Sixteen Afghan National Police officers have died in two attacks on checkpoints in southern and northern Afghanistan.

The Ministry of Interior said the first attack occurred before dawn in Baghlan province, north of Kabul, when a group of armed militants attacked a police checkpoint and killed eight policemen.

About the same time, militants attacked another police checkpoint in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan.

Another eight police were killed.

Both incidents are under investigation.

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