Taliban checkpoint attack kills four Afghan police officers KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Taliban militants attacked a checkpoint in northeastern Afghanistan, killing at least four police officers and injuring two others, police said. The Taliban struck Thursday in the latest of a series of attacks in the Wardaj district of Badakhshan province Khaama Press reported Friday. Provincial security chief Ghulam Sakhi Hairday denied a Taliban statement that said nine police officers were killed and the attaclers had taken control of the checkpoint. He said it remained in the hands of Afghan security forces. In earlier attacks, at least eight Afghan police officers were killed in a Taliban ambush in the Kohi-e-Ghanio area of the district and four of 16 kidnapped police officers were killed in the Bashin area, the Khaama Press report said.