A Pakistani airstrike on a drug rehabilitation center in the Afghan capital Kabul has killed 400 people and injured 250 so far.
The Taliban government in Afghanistan claims that the attack was carried out on a center treating drug addicts.
While Pakistan denies this, it has claimed that the airstrike targeted military installations and ‘terrorist centers’ in Kabul and the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar.
A spokesman for the Taliban government in Afghanistan wrote on X that the hospital was targeted on Monday, resulting in some people being killed and others injured.
The BBC Pashto service visited the hospital where parts of the building were still burning and more than 30 bodies were being brought in on stretchers.
According to hospital officials, about 2,000 people were being treated there.
Afghan Taliban deputy spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat claimed in a post on social media that the death toll was 400 and 250 people were injured.
Afghan Health Ministry spokesman Sharafat Zaman Amarkhail told the BBC that there were no military installations near the hospital.
Residents reported hearing loud explosions at 8:50 pm local time, followed by the sound of aircraft.
Families of those undergoing treatment were gathered outside the hospital, trying to get information.
Afghan Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid shared a photo with a post on the social media platform and wrote that “these were civilians and drug addicts, most of whom were killed in the Pakistani airstrike.”
On the other hand, some players from the Afghan cricket team, including Rashid Khan, condemned the attack on social media.
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