1 security man killed, 6 injured in militant's attack on district court Kohat.

1 security man killed, 6 injured in militant's attack on district court Kohat.

The Nation | 09 Sep 2013 :: One security man was killed and six injured when armed militants attacked office of DPO Kohat located in the premises of district court on Monday.

According to DPO Kohat office, eight to ten militants attacked district court with hand grenades and heavy arms. 

Exchange of fire took place between the attackers and security forces within the court premises as four security men were reported injured.

Two attacking militants were also killed as the security forces retaliated the attack, informed an official of DPO office. While remaining attackers escaped from the scene.

Presently Police has surrounded the area and evacuated people from the court and offices.

Officials of Bomb Disposal Unit (BDU) is checking the court premises and after clearance it will be opened for general public.(Courtesy:The Nation)

Taliban bomber kills 15 at top Afghan court.

An Afghan policeman stands

 guard at the site of the suicide 

car bomb attack in Kabul June 

11, 2013. – Photo by Reuters

KABUL|11|June|2013:: A Taliban suicide car bomber on Tuesday targeted staff at Afghanistan's top court, killing 15 civilians and wounding 40 others in the second attack in two days in the heavily fortified capital, police said.

Women and children were among those killed and injured in the powerful explosion at the entrance to the Supreme Court, near the US embassy as buses waited to take court staff home at the end of the working day, officials said.

The Taliban claimed responsibility and threatened further attacks on the judiciary if it continued to sentence to death members of its militia.

The bomber struck at around 4:00 pm (1130 GMT) in the crowded area, close to a block of residential flats home to middle-class Afghans.

General Mohammad Zahir, head of Kabul criminal investigations, said the bomber rammed one of the buses carrying Supreme Court staff.

“A suicide bomb hit at the back of a coaster causing lots of civilian casualties, dead and wounded,” Zahir told AFP.

“The most precise and updated toll is 15 killed and 40 wounded,” he said.

He earlier said that at least two women were among the dead and children were also among the casualties. “Most of the casualties are Supreme Court employees,” he added.

An AFP photographer saw human flesh and dead bodies lying on the ground as police picked their way through the debris, the wreckage of a car and two badly damaged buses on the main road leading to the airport.

A couple of legs and part of a body were stuck to the back of one bus.

Civilian volunteers who happened to be in the area where helping to evacuate the wounded, soaked in blood, by foot, on shoulder, dragged and by handcart.

The Taliban, the militia that is stepping up an 11-year insurgency against the Western-backed Afghan government as Nato troops prepare to withdraw next year, claimed responsibility for the attack.

In a statement, it said it had punished judges for “justifying the invading infidels” in sentencing to death Taliban prisoners held by the Afghan government.

“Today's attack was a warning that should they (judges) continue to give tyrannical verdicts and intimidate (our) countrymen, then the mujahideen will not tolerate it and condemn them to death” said a copy of the statement seen by AFP.(Courtesy:Dawn)

London soldier murder suspects in court.

London soldier murder suspects in court.  AFP

This file photo shows Michael 

Adebolajo, who will be appearing 

at Westminster Magistrate's court

 on Monday June 3, 2013, after

 being charged with the murder

 of Lee Rigby. He is also charged

 with the attempted murder of two

 police officers, and being in possession

 of a firearm.—Photo by AFP

LONDON|03|June|2013:: The two Muslim converts suspected of brutally hacking to death a soldier on a London street will appear at separate courts in the British capital on Monday.

Michael Adebolajo, 28, will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court for his first court hearing after he was charged on Saturday with the murder of 25-year-old soldier Lee Rigby.

He has also been charged with the attempted murder of two police officers and possession of a firearm.

The other suspect, 22-year-old Michael Adebowale, is due to appear at the Old Bailey in central London for a bail hearing ahead of a pre-trial hearing on June 28.

He faces charges of murder and possessing a firearm.

Adebowale appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court on Thursday, speaking only to confirm his identity and current address, after he was discharged from hospital on Tuesday.

The two Muslim converts of Nigerian descent were shot by police at the scene of the killing near Rigby's barracks in Woolwich, southeast London, on May 22.

Counter-terrorism officers charged Adebolajo after a day of questioning following his release from hospital on Friday.

The pair were filmed and photographed at the murder scene by witnesses, but legal restrictions prohibit the reporting of further details of the attack.

An inquest into Rigby's death heard that he was run over by a car before being attacked by two men armed with a cleaver and a knife, on a quiet suburban street in the middle of the afternoon.

Ten other people have been arrested in connection with the case, including two women who have been released without charge.(Courtesy:Dawn)