"The State of Qatar expressed its strong condemnation and denunciation of the killing of a female judge and a female employee of the Afghan Ministry of Education, and the wounding of the third women in an attack targeting a vehicle in the capital, Kabul," said Qatar News Agency on Twitter.

The State of Qatar expressed its strong condemnation and denunciation of the killing of a female judge and a female employee of the Afghan Ministry of Education, and the wounding of the third women in an attack targeting a vehicle in the capital, Kabul. #QNA pic.twitter.com/2ZZzbByAax

— Qatar News Agency (@QNAEnglish) January 17, 2021

As per the eyewitnesses, the attack took place on Sunday morning around 8:30 am local time. 

Gunmen shot dead two Afghan women working for the country’s supreme court in an early-morning ambush in Kabul on Sunday, officials said, as a wave of assassinations continued to rattle the nation.

Violence has surged across Afghanistan in recent months despite continuing peace talks between the Taliban and government, especially in Kabul, where a new trend of targeted killings of high-profile figures has sown fear in the city.

The latest attack comes just two days after the Pentagon announced it had cut troop levels in Afghanistan to 2,500, the fewest in nearly two decades.

The attack on the judges happened as they were driving to their office in a court vehicle, said Ahmad Fahim Qaweem, a spokesman for the supreme court.

“Unfortunately, we have lost two women judges in today’s attack. Their driver is wounded,” Qaweem said.

There were more than 200 female judges working for the country’s top court, the spokesman added.

Kabul police confirmed the attack, but have yet not disclosed the identity of women.

Meanwhile, no group including the Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack yet.