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World Service,17 Mar 2026,49 mins

People are feared dead or injured at a drug treatment centre in Kabul

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A BBC team saw at least thirty bodies in the aftermath of the attack in the hospital. Survivors have described the ceiling falling in on them. Pakistan has denied targeting the medical centre, saying it was hitting military and not civilian sites. The US embassy in Iraq's capital Baghdad has been hit by dornes , in what's been described as "the most intense assault" since attacks started. We speak to our correspondent in the region And we hear form the mother of the girl at the centre of The Oscar nominated film "The Voice of Hind Rajab" (Photo: Debris lies in a room of a drug users rehabilitation hospital destroyed in what the Taliban said was a Pakistani air strike in Kabul; Credit: Yunus Yawar/Reuters)

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