About 400 killed, 250 wounded in Pak airstrikes on Afghan drug rehab center
Kabul/New Delhi, Mar 17 (UNI) At least 400 people were killed, and more than 250 were injured after the Pakistan Army carried out airstrikes on a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul on Monday night.
Local Afghan media quoted Mullah Hamdullah Fitrat, Deputy Spokesman for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), as saying the attack took place on Monday night at around 9:00 pm, targeting a 2,000-bed drug treatment hospital ‘Omid’, with large parts of the facility destroyed.
He said the number of casualties could rise further. So far, the death toll has reached 400, and up to 250 others have been wounded, according to Afghan news agencies Pajhwok and Tolo news.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the IEA’s Chief Spokesman, said: “We strongly condemn this crime and consider such an act to be against all accepted principles and an inhumane act.”
On Saturday night, the Pakistan Army carried out airstrikes on civilian areas in eastern Kunar and southern Kandahar provinces.
However, no casualties were reported. He warned that the attack would not go unanswered, according to the Afghanistan media.
Mujahid said, “Pakistan has once again violated Afghan airspace. Two locations in Kandahar were bombed. One strike hit a part of a hospital for drug addicts where patients were receiving treatment.
It is a civilian facility. There were no casualties, but part of the building was destroyed.”
He said the second strike hit an empty container that had been lying there. I do not know what they thought it was, but no one was present.
Previously, there was a guard post at that site, but now nobody lives there. There were absolutely no casualties, and these were ordinary places where bombs were dropped.
“There is no cause for concern, and we reassure the people, but Pakistan must face the consequences of these provocations and acts of aggression,” he said.
Zia Rahman Spinghar, Kunar Information and Culture Director, said Pakistan had fired 159 rockets into Kunar province over the past 24 hours.
He said Pakistan’s military regime fired 40 rockets at Manogai district, 67 at Sarkano, 40 at Nari, seven at Dangam and five at Shultan district.
Spinghar added that the attacks caused no human or financial losses.
