Kabul, Nov 7 (IANS) Four judges were killed in an ambush in Afghanistan's Logar province on Thursday, police said.

The incident took place in the Baqi Abad area of Mohammad Agha district as the judges were returning home from a weekly holiday and gunmen ambushed their vehicle, TOLO News reported.

The police accused the Taliban as being responsible, but the insurgent group was yet to make a statement.

--IANS ksk/