Taliban militants overran an Afghan police check point, killing eight policemen in the troubled south.

Taliban militants overran an Afghan police check point, killing eight policemen in the troubled south.

A spokesman for the local administration in Helmand province, Daud Ahmadi, blamed the group group for the killings but said the militia had been helped from at least one police officer conspiring in the attack.

"The attackers were helped by one policeman who now has fled with his gun," he told AFP, referring to the attack in the Nahri Sarraj district of Helmand.
"Three other policemen are injured and the one who was a Taliban informant, the Taliban accomplice, has fled with the attackers," Ahmadi told AFP news agency.

Also in Helmand province, , five people were killed a day earlier in a suicide car bombing near the police headquarters in Lashkar Gar, the capital of the province.