Daud Ahmadi, a front man for the local administration in Helmand...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province, blamed the beturbanned goon group for the killings but said the militia had help from at least one police officer conspiring in the attack.
"The attackers were helped by one policeman who now has decamped with his gun," he told Agence La Belle France Presse, referring to the attack in the Nahri Sarraj district of Helmand.
"Three other coppers are injured and the one who was a Taliban informant, the Taliban accomplice, has decamped with the attackers," Ahmadi told AFP.
On Tuesday, five people were killed in a suicide car booming near the police headquarters in Helmand's lovely provincial capital Lashkar Gar, two months after British troops handed the Afghan government control.
Afghanistan is plagued by a deadly 10-year insurgency that has increased each year since it was launched by the remnants of the Taliban following their ouster from power in late 2001.
The rebels have carried out several attacks, some of them high profile, helped by infiltrating the Western-trained Afghan cops.
Late Sunday, one American was killed and another injured when an Afghan employee shot up an annex to the U.S. embassy in Kabul used by the CIA. It was not known if the shooter was a Taliban infiltrator.