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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 ...
Bodies of the dead and injured were taken to the nearby hospital where distraught family members waited at the entrance. After the attack, smoke filled the mosque building and rose over the city. [1] Photos and videos of the scene posted on social media showed blood splattered on the floor and walls of the mosque. The bodies of victims were ...
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 U.S. Department of Defense will seek to make "condolence payments" to families of victims of a U.S. air strike that mistakenly hit a Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan ...
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]
In the aftermath of the deadly hospital explosion in Gaza on Tuesday, some of the world’s biggest and most reputable news organizations uncritically echoed claims from the Hamas-run Palestinian ...
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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 ...