400 people killed in Pak airstrike at Kabul hospital
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Afghanistan’s deputy government spokesman said early Tuesday the death toll from an airstrike by Pakistan that hit a hospital treating drug users in the Afghan capital Kabul has increased to 400. Residents and volunteers inspect the site of a late-Monday airstrike at a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul,
March 17 - More than 400 people were killed and 265 injured in an air strike by Pakistan on a drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul, the Afghan Taliban government said on Tuesday, a charge Islamabad denied and said it had targeted a military camp and "terrorist infrastructure".
Afghanistan has warned of a fierce retaliation after Pakistani airstrikes in Kabul, calling the attack a violation of sovereignty and vowing it will not go unanswered.
Pakistan says it struck militant hideouts in Afghanistan as cross-border fighting intensified and both sides traded blame.