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The judiciary in Northern Ireland has expressed its horror at the “dastardly” killing of two judges in Afghanistan.
On Sunday gunmen fired on a car in northern Kabul, killing the two women who worked for the country’s high court and wounding the driver.
In a statement yesterday, the judiciary here spoke of its shock at the murders,
It said: “On January 17 two female judges of the Afghanistan Supreme Court were murdered in Kabul.
“This was another attack in a series of continuing and murderous attacks on the system of justice in Afghanistan. But it was also a truly dreadful and dastardly attack on female members of an independent judiciary.
Official: Gunmen kill two women judges in Afghan capital By Associated Press
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KABUL, Afghanistan Gunmen fired on a car in northern Kabul on Sunday, killing two women judges who worked for Afghanistan’s high court and wounding the driver, a court official said. It was the latest attack in the Afghan capital during peace talks between Taliban and Afghan government officials in Qatar.
Supreme Court of Afghanistan spokesman Ahmad Fahim Qawim, said the women were judges who worked for the high court but he did not identify them by name.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack and Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the insurgent group wasn’t responsible.
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