COAS offers treatment to Kabul hospital attack victims

COAS offers treatment to Kabul hospital attack victims

RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa Thursday expressed sorrow over yesterday’s bombing at military hospital in Kabul.

According to Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), the army chief conveyed a message of sorrow to Afghanistan ambassador.

General Bajwa also offered assistance including treatment of injured persons, DG ISPR Major General Asif Ghafoor wrote on Twitter.

Yesterday, gunmen disguised as doctors stormed Afghanistan’s largest military hospital, killing at least 38 people in a six-hour attack.

More than 70 others were wounded in the assault on the Sardar Daud Khan hospital, with explosions and gunfire rattling Kabul’s diplomatic district.