‘At least 400 killed’ after horror air strike on hospital | World | News
The incident, which occurred on Monday (March 16), marks an escalation in the conflict that began in late February and has seen repeated cross-border clashes as well as air strikes within Afghanistan.
Pakistan denied the accusation that it hit the hospital. It was stated that no civilian areas were hit in the attacks carried out in eastern Afghanistan.
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More broadly, the Middle East has entered its third week of conflict after the United States and Israel launched a joint attack on key parts of Iran on February 28. Iran retaliated, plunging the region into war, disrupting oil trade through the Middle East and causing chaos in air travel.
Hamdullah Fitrat, deputy spokesman for the Afghan government, said in a post on the Fitrat added that “so far” the death toll has reached 400 people, and approximately 250 people have been reported injured.
Local television media broadcast images of security forces using torches to intervene in the injured while fire crews were trying to extinguish the flames among the ruins of a building.
The strike came just hours after Afghan officials said the two sides had exchanged gunfire along their shared border, killing four people in Afghanistan as the neighbors entered a third week of the deadliest conflict in years.
Afghan government spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid condemned the attack in his post on X. Mujahid accused Pakistan of “targeting hospitals and civilian areas to create fear”. It was also stated that the dead and injured were hospital patients.
Mosharraf Zaidi, spokesman for Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, described the allegations as baseless, saying that no hospital was targeted in Kabul.
Pakistan’s Ministry of Information, in a post on
He said the targeting of Pakistan “was carried out in a precise and careful manner to ensure that no collateral damage occurred.”
