Afghanistan's top court has sentenced two men to death for killing 38 people in a February attack on a bank in the eastern city of Jalalabad.

A group of militants armed with guns and suicide bombs stormed a branch of Kabul bank in the capital of Nangarhar province four months ago, triggering a gunbattle with security forces that lasted several hours.

Surveillance video of the attack showed the men opening fire on unarmed civilians, in an attack claimed by the Taliban.

One of the men who was sentenced to death, Zar Ajam, said he “enjoyed” killing the civilians who were “foreigners.” He made the statement in a police video taken after his arrest.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai must first sign the death warrant of the two men before their sentence can be carried out.

Court officials say a third man was also convicted in the bank attack and sentenced to at least 10 years in prison.