After two decades and nearly $2 trillion spent trying to stabilize Afghanistan, the nation has once again spiraled into disaster. The Middle East is aflame, mediators are nowhere to be found, and a tragedy has struck Kabul with devastating force: a hospital housing hundreds has been destroyed.
Monday night, tragedy hit the Omid Hospital – which means “Hope” – when Pakistan’s air force launched an airstrike on the facility. The 2,000-bed rehabilitation center, built inside a former NATO compound, had long served tens of thousands of Afghans struggling with addiction.
Large sections of the hospital were engulfed in flames within hours, turning a place of healing into a scene of horror. “When I arrived last night, I saw that everything was burning, people were burning,” ambulance driver Haji Fahim told Reuters.
Afghanistan’s deputy government spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat confirmed the scale of the catastrophe: 400 people are dead, and roughly 250 more have been injured.
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