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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Abdul Qahar Afghan

Afghans hold second mass funeral for victims of an airstrike that hit a Kabul drug treatment center

Afghanistan Pakistan - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Dozens of people were buried in a Kabul cemetery on Thursday in the second mass funeral of victims killed in an airstrike that hit a drug rehabilitation center in the Afghan capital earlier this month.

Bulldozers opened a large pit into which individual graves were dug for the 60 coffins. Afghan officials have said hundreds of people were killed when a Pakistani airstrike hit the 2,000-bed Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital on March 16.

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