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Médecins Sans Frontières reported that between 02:08 and 03:15 local time (UTC+04:30) on the night of 3 October, the organization's Kunduz hospital was struck by "a series of aerial bombing raids". [ 11 ] [ 21 ] The humanitarian organization said the hospital was "hit several times" in the course of the attack, and that the building was ...
The local Kunduz Provincial Hospital reported 35 deaths and more than 50 injuries. Twenty fatalities were reported from Médecins Sans Frontières. [10] According to a Taliban official, there were 100 victims, adding that most were dead. [11] The official death toll provided to media outlets is 50, and 143 others were injured.
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]
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]
On 19 May, the Taliban killed a policeman and a civilian and injured 18 others in a motorbike bomb in Kunduz, Afghanistan. On the same day, the Taliban attempted to capture Kunduz, attacking several government posts but were repelled by the Afghan security forces. The Taliban were forced to flee the city, leaving ten dead bodies behind. [51]
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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 ...
On 3 October 2015, a USAF airstrike hit a hospital operated by Doctors Without Borders in Kunduz during the Battle of Kunduz. 42 people were killed and over 30 were injured in the airstrike. [68] Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said the airstrike may have been a war crime. [69]