Dasht-e-Archi residents claim 50 civilians were killed and 150 others wounded in Monday’s airstrike in the district.  

The airstrike was carried out on Monday at about 11am.

According to the residents and some provincial council members, the airstrike was carried out by the Afghan Air Force (AAF) on a madrassa. 

David Beasley, Executive Director of World Food Program (WFP) has said that currently about 40 percent of the population in Afghanistan has no food security.

Referring to the UN’s concerns about the rising number of people suffering from hunger, WFP officials said that over the past three years, four million more people now face a lack of food security, bringing the total number to 13 million out of about 30 million in the country.