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Third judge killed in Nangarhar in under a month
A Nangarhar judge was killed in an attack by unidentified gunmen in the city of Jalalabad on Wednesday morning, security officials said.
According to officials, the man, identified as Hafizullah, was a judge at the Public Security and Business Department.
He was the third court official killed in less than a month in the province.
Hafizullah was reportedly attacked as he headed to work in a motorized rickshaw, said Farid Khan, spokesman for Nangarhar province’s police department.
Health officials said that he had sustained multiple gunshot wounds.
So far no group claimed responsibility for the attack.