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The attack made the hospital unusable. All critical patients were referred to other providers, and all MSF staff were evacuated from Kunduz. Before the bombing, the MSF's hospital was the only active medical facility in the area. [5] It has been the only trauma center in northeastern Afghanistan.
A US AC-130 airstrike hit a hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF [Doctors Without Borders]), killing at 42 people, [30] in a series of bombing raids that lasted from 2:08 am local time until 3:15 am on 3 October. [16] [31] The trauma center was destroyed during the attack while there were 105 patients and 80 medical staff inside. [30]
Kunduz province, the site of the airstrike, was largely peaceful until Taliban militants started infiltrating the area in 2009. [6] Critics blamed the Germans for allowing the infiltration of the north by the Taliban, although in fact there had been a Taliban presence in the area since the late 1990s and several major battles were fought against them in the area during the US/Northern Alliance ...
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The Kunduz Trauma Centre was a hospital operated by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Kunduz, Afghanistan from 29 August 2011 until 3 October 2015 when it was destroyed in an airstrike by a United States Air Force AC-130U gunship. Before the bombing, the MSF's hospital was the only active medical facility in the area. [1]
The experts were shown parts of more than a dozen videos and pictures from the incident at al-Ahli Baptist Hospital and its aftermath that have been geolocated and analyzed by NBC News; some said ...
A Taliban official says a bombing at a mosque and religious school in northern Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 33 people, including students of a religious school. Zabihullah Mujahid, the ...
Kunduz airstrike can refer to: 2009 Kunduz airstrike; Kunduz hospital airstrike, in 2015; Kunduz madrassa attack, in 2018 This page was last edited on 22 ...