KABUL — On March 26, 2026, dozens of people were buried at a Kabul cemetery in the second mass funeral of victims killed in an airstrike on a drug rehabilitation center. Bulldozers opened a large pit into which individual graves were dug for 60 coffins.

The funeral followed a mass burial on March 18 for more than 50 people killed in the same incident. Afghan officials said hundreds of people were killed when a Pakistani airstrike hit the 2,000-bed Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital on March 16.

Health Ministry spokesman Sharafat Zaman said the death toll from the strike on the center now stood at 411 people. A further 263 people were wounded in the strike, according to Zaman.

The strike caused an intense fire at the hospital. Officials said the bodies of many victims were too badly damaged to be identified.

Pakistan denied targeting civilians and said it struck an ammunition depot, according to a Pakistani statement. The U.N. humanitarian affairs office said the total death toll from the strike is still under verification.

The hospital site is near Kabul's international airport and adjacent to Camp Phoenix, a former NATO military base where U.S. forces used to train the Afghan National Army. The area around Kabul's international airport is one where al-Qaida and the Islamic State group still have a presence and have been trying to resurface.

The Omid hospital had been expanded from a previously existing drug treatment facility as part of the Taliban government's efforts to address drug addiction in Afghanistan. Afghanistan's vast poppy fields have been the source of much of the world's heroin, and decades of conflict and widespread poverty in Afghanistan have fueled drug addiction.

Fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan began in February 2026. In February 2026, Pakistani officials declared that Pakistan was in open war with Afghanistan.

The fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan included repeated cross-border clashes and airstrikes inside Afghanistan, including several in Kabul. Pakistani officials said Afghanistan provides a safe haven for militants who carry out attacks inside Pakistan, especially the Pakistani Taliban, which is separate from but closely allied with the Afghan Taliban.

Afghan officials said the Afghan government denies that it provides a safe haven for militants who carry out attacks inside Pakistan. The Afghan Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 2021 during the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops.

Pakistan and Afghanistan declared a temporary truce last week ahead of the Eid al-Fitr holiday following mediation by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar. The temporary truce expired in a recent statement, and renewed fighting erupted on Wednesday.

Afghan officials said at least two civilians were killed in eastern Afghanistan and others wounded during the renewed fighting. The Pakistani Taliban said they resumed attacks inside Pakistan after observing a three-day Eid ceasefire.