{"id":76737,"date":"2026-03-18T00:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/17\/witness-horrific-scenes-pakistan-air-strike-kabul-drug-rehab-centre"},"modified":"2026-03-18T00:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:29:07","slug":"everything-was-burning-people-were-burning-witnesses-describe-strike-on-kabul-drug-rehab-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76737","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Everything was burning, people were burning\u2019: witnesses describe strike on Kabul drug rehab centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani strike on Afghan capital kills 400 people, who burned in their beds or were crushed by collapsing walls<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses and survivors have described the horrific scenes of a Pakistani air raid that hit a drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul, killing more than 400 people, who burned in their beds or were crushed by the collapsing building.<\/p>\n<p>Afghan rescue crews were still digging bodies out of the rubble on Tuesday after the strike, the deadliest single attack so far in a three-week war between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/17\/witness-horrific-scenes-pakistan-air-strike-kabul-drug-rehab-centre\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani strike on Afghan capital kills 400 people, who burned in their beds or were crushed by collapsing wallsWitnesses and survivors have described the horrific scenes of a Pakistani air raid that hit a drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul, killing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76738,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76737\/revisions\/76738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}