WorldA suicide bomber on foot ripped through a crowd of Afghan Supreme Court employees Tuesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding 41 others in the second attack on government institutions in under a month. Police blocked off the road around the high-profile compound located near the US embassy as panicked relatives of court employees began to gather and ambulances and fire trucks rushed to the scene. “Twenty people were killed (including 3 women & one child), and 41 others were injured in today's suicide attack in #Kabul,” health ministry official Wahidullah Mayar wrote on Twitter. They killed 15 civilians with a suicide car bomb at the entrance to the compound in 2013. Last month twin suicide blasts claimed by Taliban fighters tore through employees exiting a parliament annex in Kabul, killing 30 people and wounding 80.

Source: Sunday Times February 07, 2017 15:05 UTC