Two Pakistani officers were killed when scores of Taliban gunmen attacked a police checkpoint before dawn Wednesday.

Two Pakistani officers were killed when scores of Taliban gunmen attacked a police checkpoint before dawn Wednesday.

Five other officers were injured in the attack which took place in Sarband is near Khyber, part of Pakistan\'s tribal belt on the Afghan border.
Militants armed with rifles and rocket launchers attacked the checkpoint and then fled after the furious shootout.

Police said they repelled an earlier attack at around midnight (1900 GMT Tuesday), but another group of 70 Taliban fighters armed with guns and rocket launchers again laid siege before dawn.

It took police about an hour to fend off each attack, Mohammad Ijaz Khan, a senior police officer, told AFP news agency.