KUNDUZ: Islamist gunmen stormed an Afghan police post set up to protect NATO convoys in northern Baghlan province overnight, killing eight policemen, the provincial governor said Monday.

The group of gunmen ambushed the post at 2:00 am on the main highway running northeast from the Afghan capital Kabul through Baghlan, which lies on a route supplying NATO troops fighting a Taliban-led insurgency.

"Eight police were killed in an attack on their post. Their post was in Baghlan Markazi district," Mohammad Akbar Barakzai, Baghlan provincial governor, told AFP.