Eyewitnesses' accounts shred Pak lies after strike on Kabul hospital kills 400
India Today
Several eyewitnesses told Reuters that the strikes hit hospital rooms when the patients were completing their evening prayers. The building soon caught fire, and several patients were burned.
The accounts of several eyewitnesses in Afghanistan’s Kabul exposed the lies of Pakistani authorities that they hit a military infrastructure and not a hospital. On Monday, Pakistan launched military operations in Kabul and Nangarhar, which, according to a statement of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, hit the Omar Addiction Treatment Hospital in Kabul, killing 400 people.
Pakistan strongly denied the claims of hitting any medical facilities. Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s spokesperson for foreign media, Mosharraf Zaidi, said no hospital in Kabul was targeted in the Pakistani operation. Further, the Defence Ministry said that the strikes, which were precise in hitting enemy targets, hit the Afghan military installations and infrastructures in Kabul and Nangarhar that had close ties with the Afghan terrorist groups. The Ministry further added that these infrastructures were used to launch terrorist activities targeting the common people in Pakistan.
The lies by the Pakistani authorities were exposed soon as several eyewitnesses expressed their experiences of the strike. Talking to news agency Reuters, several eyewitnesses said that they heard sounds of three explosions when the people in the hospital were completing evening prayers. Two of the explosions struck rooms and patient areas.
“The whole place caught fire. It was like doomsday," an under-treatment patient named Ahmad told Reuters. “My friends were burning in the fire, and we could not save them all,” he further added.
The strikes damaged multiple facilities of the hospital. Haji Fahim, working as an ambulance driver in the hospital, told Reuters that he saw everything was burning when he arrived at his workplace.
"When I arrived (last night), I saw that everything was burning, people were burning. Early in the morning, they called me again and told me to come back because there are still bodies under the rubble,” he mentioned.
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