Bombing Near Afghan Supreme Court in Kabul Kills and Wounds Dozens<br />7, 2017<br />KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bombing near the offices of the Afghan Supreme Court in central Kabul during<br />the evening rush hour on Tuesday killed more than a dozen people and wounded many more, officials said.<br />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<br />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.<br />Sediq Zhobel said that The time the blast happened — it was right when Supreme Court employees were leaving work for home,<br />Wahidullah Mayar, the senior public relations adviser to the Ministry of Public Health, said<br />20 people were killed, including three women and one child, and 41 others were wounded.<br />The group in the past has claimed responsibility for many court-related assaults,<br />including on provincial courtrooms and buses carrying court employees.<br />The insurgents mentioned, in particular, those "who issue execution orders" of their<br />fighters — essentially saying they did not consider court workers to be civilians.
