Bombing Near Afghan Supreme Court in Kabul Kills and Wounds Dozens
7, 2017
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bombing near the offices of the Afghan Supreme Court in central Kabul during
the evening rush hour on Tuesday killed more than a dozen people and wounded many more, officials said.
President Ashraf Ghani, who was visiting the remote province of Nuristan, where more than 50 people died in recent avalanches, condemned the attack as another
terrorist act by "the enemies of Afghanistan." The Supreme Court was locked down after the attack out of fear that gunmen might storm the building.
Sediq Zhobel said that The time the blast happened — it was right when Supreme Court employees were leaving work for home,
Wahidullah Mayar, the senior public relations adviser to the Ministry of Public Health, said
20 people were killed, including three women and one child, and 41 others were wounded.
The group in the past has claimed responsibility for many court-related assaults,
including on provincial courtrooms and buses carrying court employees.
The insurgents mentioned, in particular, those "who issue execution orders" of their
fighters — essentially saying they did not consider court workers to be civilians.