Article 74A1A ‘Everything was burning, people were burning’: witnesses describe strike on Kabul drug rehab centre

‘Everything was burning, people were burning’: witnesses describe strike on Kabul drug rehab centre

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Oliver Holmes, Hannah Ellis-Petersen and agencies
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Pakistani strike on Afghan capital kills 400 people, who burned in their beds or were crushed by collapsing walls

Witnesses and survivors have described the horrific scenes of a Pakistani air raid that hit a drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul, killing more than 400 people, who burned in their beds or were crushed by the collapsing building.

Afghan rescue crews were still digging bodies out of the rubble on Tuesday after the strike, the deadliest single attack so far in a three-week war between the two countries.

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