(AP) – The official death toll from last week’s militant assault on a Kabul military hospital has risen to 50, according to the results of a preliminary investigation. Officials originally set the death toll at 30 for the March 8 attack. But Gen. Helaludin Helal, the deputy defense minister and head of the team investigating the attack and its aftermath, released the new number in a press conference Wednesday.
Afghan official: Death toll from hospital attack rises to 50
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