Article 74D13 ‘This is the saddest moment’: families search for loved ones on Eid after Kabul hospital strike

‘This is the saddest moment’: families search for loved ones on Eid after Kabul hospital strike

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Saeed Shah in Islamabad
from World news | The Guardian on (#74D13)

At least 400 killed in Pakistan's strike on drug rehab centre, Taliban say, with families searching unmarked mass graves

Sohrab Faqiri spent Eid, the Muslim festival to mark the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, looking for the grave of his brother, killed in a massive Pakistan airstrike on Kabul this week.

Pakistan's bombardment campaign, on what it says is terrorist and military infrastructure in neighbouring Afghanistan, appeared to have gone catastrophically wrong. A rehabilitation centre for drug addicts was hit on Monday night, according to the United Nations and the Afghan authorities. The UN's preliminary death toll is 143 people, while the Taliban administration puts the figure at more than 400 dead.

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