Fighters from the Kamwina Nsapu group attacked a police convoy.
Six policemen who spoke the local Tshiluba were freed, but the rest were killed, Kasai Assembly President Francois Kalamba said.
The unrest in Kasai began last August, when security forces killed the Kamwina Nsapu leader.
Friday's attack targeted a police convoy travelling between Tshikapa and Kananga.
The state Governor Alexis Nkande Myopompa said an investigation had been launched into the killings.
The UN says 400 people have been killed and 200,000 displaced in the Kasai region since Jean-Pierre Pandi, the Kamwina Nsapu leader, was killed.
This came two months after Kamwina Nsapu launched a bid, in June 2016, for him to be officially recognised as a local chief and for state bodies to withdraw from the region.
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