KABUL – Gunmen killed two Afghan women judges working for the Supreme Court during an early-morning ambush in the capital today, said officials, as a wave of assassinations continues to rattle the nation.
The attack on the judges happened as they were travelling to their office in a court vehicle, Ahmad Fahim Qaweem, a spokesman for the court, told AFP.
“Unfortunately, we have lost two women judges in today’s attack. Their driver is wounded.
“The vehicle was transporting the judges to their office.”
There are more than 200 female judges working for the country’s top court, he added.
Kabul police confirmed the attack.
“They were judges working for the Supreme Court,” said Jamshid Rasuli, spokesman for the attorney-general’s office.
Violence has surged across Afghanistan in recent months, especially here, where a new trend of targeted killings of high-profile figures has sown fear and chaos in the restive city.
The latest attack comes just two days after the Pentagon announced it has cut troop levels in Afghanistan to 2,500, the lowest number in the nearly 20-year war. – AFP, January 17, 2021
