KABUL insurgents have overrun a police checkpoint in the Dawlatabad district of western Faryab province, a police official acknowledged on Friday.
Col. Niamatullah Toofan, the district police chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News two policemen were killed and three others, including a woman, wounded in the militant assault.
Dozens of fighters stormed the police check-post late on Thursday and the ensuing gunbattle continued until midnight. One policeman and a public uprising member were killed.
He said the police checkpoint was seized by the attackers . . .
