KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Some seven police personnel were killed after Taliban militants attacked a security checkpoint in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz on Sunday, a local police said.
"The attack took place after militants stormed an Afghan Local Police (ALP) post in Zhakhel, an area on outskirts of provincial capital Kunduz city at wee hours of Sunday. And one ALP officer was also injured during the firing," the police official told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The government established the ALP, or community police, in 2010 to protect villages and districts around the country where army and police have limited presence.
However, local residents said that the killing was obviously as a result of a suspected insider attack as an ALP member apparently affiliated with the Taliban had facilitated the attack and after committing the crime took their weapons and joined the attackers.
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