{"id":479839,"date":"2026-03-17T05:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/479839\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T05:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:32:09","slug":"afghanistan-accuses-pakistan-of-killing-hundreds-in-hospital-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/479839\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan accuses Pakistan of killing hundreds in hospital strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some 2,000 people were being treated there, according to hospital officials, who believe there could be hundreds of casualties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Afghan health ministry&#8217;s spokesman, Sharafat Zaman Amarkhail, told the BBC there were no military facilities near the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents reported hearing loud explosions across Kabul at around 20:50 local time (16:20 GMT), followed by the sound of aircraft and air defence systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Family members of those being treated at the hospital were gathered outside, desperately trying to find information about their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Taliban government spokesperson claimed the death toll reached at least 400, but the BBC has not independently verified the numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pakistan&#8217;s information ministry said the strikes were &#8220;precise and carefully undertaken to ensure no collateral damage is inflicted&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It dismissed Afghanistan&#8217;s claim as a &#8220;misreporting of facts&#8230; [that] seeks to stir sentiments, covering illegitimate support to cross-border terrorism&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some 2,000 people were being treated there, according to hospital officials, who believe there could be hundreds of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-479839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}