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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Abdul Qahar Afghan and Munir Ahmed

Mass funeral held in Kabul for victims of strike on hospital that Afghanistan blames on Pakistan

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

Bulldozers dug pits in a cemetery in the Afghan capital ahead of a mass funeral Wednesday for some of the victims of what officials have said was a Pakistani airstrike that hit a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul earlier this week.

The strike was the deadliest in an escalating conflict between the two neighbors, now in its third week. Afghan officials have put the death toll at 408 people, with 265 wounded. The toll could not be independently verified.

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