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Afghanistan: UN condemns deadly attack on rehab centre in Kabul

UN News - Global perspective Human stories·7 months ago
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Top UN officials condemned on Tuesday Pakistan’s overnight strike on a rehab centre that reportedly killed at least 400 people in Kabul, according to Taliban authorities, and injured more than 250 others. “A reported overnight strike on the Omid Drug Rehabilitation Facility in Kabul, managed by the Ministry of Interior, killed more than 400 people, and injured at least 250, who were being treated for substance use disorders,” said World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Since hostilities between Pakistan and Afghanistan escalated at the end of last month, several hundred Afghan civilians – including 104 children and 59 women – have been killed or injured. The Pakistani Government has denied its forces hit the facility, insisting that it has struck only military targets. Tens of thousands, mostly in the south and southeast of the country, have been displaced by the fighting. In Pakistan, many have also been forced to flee their homes, and schools have been closed.…

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