HERAT: Six Afghan police and a soldier were killed and eight NATO troops injured in three separate attacks by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, officials and the military said Friday. The attacks which occurred at Herat in the west and Laghman in the east also left three Afghan police and four soldiers injured, they said.The six policemen, including a district police chief, were killed when rebels attacked a police convoy in Herat province on Thursday. Meanwhile, an Italian photographer kidnapped in Afghanistan last month has been freed and is in good health, Italian authorities said Friday. Gabriele Torsello and his Afghan translator were kidnapped Oct. 14 as they drove from Lashkar Gah, the capital of the southern Helmand province, toward neighbouring Kandahar.