A Pakistani airstrike on a drug rehabilitation center in the Afghan capital Kabul has killed 400 people and injured 250 so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Taliban government in Afghanistan claims that the attack was carried out on a center treating drug addicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While Pakistan denies this, it has claimed that the airstrike targeted military installations and \u2018terrorist centers\u2019 in Kabul and the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to hospital officials, about 2,000 people were being treated there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Afghan Taliban deputy spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat claimed in a post on social media that the death toll was 400 and 250 people were injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Afghan Health Ministry spokesman Sharafat Zaman Amarkhail told the BBC that there were no military installations near the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Residents reported hearing loud explosions at 8:50 pm local time, followed by the sound of aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Families of those undergoing treatment were gathered outside the hospital, trying to get information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Afghan Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid shared a photo with a post on the social media platform and wrote that \u201cthese were civilians and drug addicts, most of whom were killed in the Pakistani airstrike.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the other hand, some players from the Afghan cricket team, including Rashid Khan, condemned the attack on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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