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| Taliban target Supreme Court in Kabul, 14 killed | | | Agencies
Kabul: Fourteen people were killed and 38 others were injured when a suicide bomber struck outside the Afghan Supreme Court near the US embassy in Kabul on Tuesday, police said. According to police officer Jahn Agha, the bomb exploded outside the court's back entrance as employees were leaving for the day.
The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack. The courthouse is located on a road a few hundred meters (yards) from the gates of the American mission in a central part of Kabul, which lead to initial confusion as to the intended target of the blast. However, the gates are quite a distance from the actual US embassy building and also from nearby NATO headquarters.
Deputy police chief Dawood Amin said the top court was the target of the attack. "There were casualties among the Supreme Court officials," said eyewitness Mohammad Salem.
It was the second attack in Kabul in as many days. The Taliban and other militants have unleashed a wave of bombings and assassinations around the country, testing the ability of the Afghan security forces to respond with reduced help from international forces, which have begun a withdrawal that will see most foreign troops gone by the end of 2014.
On Monday, seven Taliban fighters with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns launched a rare assault on NATO's operational headquarters at the military section of Kabul's international airport. All seven militants were killed and two civilians were wounded in the violence. |
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