[1] On 3 April 2013, a group of militants began an assault on Farah, a city in western Afghanistan.
[1] They entered buildings, then a machine-gun and grenade battle ensued between the attackers and Afghan security forces.
[1] However, the province's police chief said that the insurgents failed in their attempt to enable the escape of 15 Taliban prisoners who were being transferred to the courthouse to be tried, as they are all accounted for.
He said the Taliban do not consider attorneys and judges to be civilians but rather agents of the Kabul regime, and therefore legitimate targets.
Ahmadi said “We besieged all the rooms and shot them in the head one by one.”[4] President Hamid Karzai said in a statement, “Terrorists once again have shed the blood of innocent people visiting government departments for their work.