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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Oliver Holmes, Hannah Ellis-Petersen, and Haroon Janjua in Islamabad 

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

A man stands on the rubble of the bombed building.
Rescue teams continue to search the rubble of the addiction treatment centre in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photograph: Sayed Hassib/Reuters

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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