Abdul Hai Hamidi gently opened each of the dozens of coffins, hoping to recognise one of his relatives who was killed in a Pakistani strike on a Kabul drug treatment centre.Â
But it left him none the wiser and like other loved ones, he prepared to carry on his search.
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