At least 10 police officers have been abducted by Taliban militants in Afghanistan’s northern Badakhshan province, officials say.
Four officers died when militants attacked the government compound in Wardoj district, police say.
Some reports suggest as many as 16 police officers are being held.
The attack comes as Nato-led troops steadily withdraw from Afghanistan. On Sunday, Britain marked the end of combat operations there.
Provincial police spokesman Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai told the BBC that heavy casualties had been inflicted on the Taliban during fighting at the compound.
He added that police units had been despatched in an attempt to free the captured policemen.
The attack comes just one day after NATO-led troops reduced their forces as part of a staged withdrawal from Afghanistan, BBC informs.
