KABUL. Feb 1: Casualties tn the Kabul factional fighting between forces for and against President . Burhanuddin Rabbani have topped 12,000. with 800 to 900 kilted, the International Coipmittee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said today, reports AFP.

But of the 12,200 casualties recorded for the first 28 days fighting in Kabul, as many as 3.000 treated may have been injured in previous clashes and had returned for fresh dressing of old wounds, the ICRC noted.