Taliban militants have killed eleven Afghan officers in an overnight attack on a police post in the southern province of Kandahar.
"At least 11 Afghan police were killed last night in the Arghandab district", AFP reported deputy provincial police chief, Amanuallah Khan, as saying Monday.
Police vehicles and weapons were also seized by the attackers, the report added.
Khan blamed the Taliban for the attack.
The attack comes two days after Taliban militants killed four counter-narcotics officers in Maiwand district of Kandahar province while they were destroying an opium poppy field.
Authorities say that more than 900 Afghan police were killed in militant attacks last year. Overall, the UN says that more than 8,000 people, mostly militants, lost their lives in 2007.
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Eleven policemen have been killed after members of the Taliban attacked a group of police Arghandab region of Afghanistan. The attack, which took place yesterday evening, also resulted in the Taliban taking many of the weapons used by the police.

The police chief in the area commented on the incident. "At least 11 Afghan police were killed last night in the Arghandab district," he said when talking to AFP.

The BBC claims the police are easier targets than the Afghan and NATO forces for organisations like the Taliban because they often have less training, in addition to weaker weapons.