KABUL, Afghanistan, June 02, SPA -- NATO military aircraft supported Afghan police in a 12-hour firefight in western Afghanistan that killed at least 10 insurgents, NATO's InternationalSecurity Assistance Force said Monday. Afghan officials claimed a much higher death toll, sayingdozens of insurgents were killed. A spokesman for the police in western Afghanistan, HajiRaouf Ahmedi, said 150 insurgents attacked a policecheckpoint Sunday, triggering the daylong battle in Murghabdistrict, near the border with Turkmenistan. Ahmedi said 46 insurgents were killed and 30 wounded,though he said police recovered the bodies of only fiveinsurgents. Asked how he knew 46 were killed, Ahmedireplied, «We have reports. » The Associated Press quoted Ahmedi as saying one policeman was also killed. The governor of Badghis province, Ashraf Nasery, said 49insurgents were killed and 35 wounded. He attributed thedeath toll to «intelligence reports. »--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/561419