ISLAMABAD: Searchers dug through debris Sunday unearthing bodies after a missile strike on a crowded bazaar in a provincial capital in eastern Afghanistan Reports said up to 300 people were killed and 700 hurt
At least two Soviet-made Scud missiles slammed into Asadabad capital of Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province late Saturday said Qaribur Saeed a spokesman for the radical Hezb-i-Islami or Party of Islam guerrilla group.
“The mujahedeen were still digging bodies out of Asadabad” Saeed said Sunday. The guerrillas call themselves mujahedeen which means holy warrior.
Article extracted from this publication >> April 26, 1991
