Dozens of Taliban militants staged a series of attacks against police posts, killing four officers and capturing at least 16 others.

Dozens of Taliban militants staged a series of attacks against police posts, killing four officers and capturing at least 16 others.

The attacks took place overnight in the remote northeastern province of Badakhshan.
Two policemen were injured and three others were missing after an intense battle in the mountainous province's Wardaj district, on a lawless pass to neighboring Pakistan, deputy provincial governor, Shamsul Rahman Shams said.

"A big number of the Taliban carried out the attacks. The police were overpowered," he told AFP from the provincial capital town of Faizabad.

"Sixteen police were captured by the Taliban and taken away. Three others are also missing but we don't know what has happened to them," Shams said.
The militants seized two police trucks and a quantity of ammunition.