At least 19 people, including 12 Doctors Without Borders staffers and three child patients, were killed Saturday morning when an airstrike blasted an Afghan hospital. American officials confirmed a U.S. attack on war-torn Kunduz “may have resulted in collateral damage to a nearby medical facility” and that the lethal attack was under investigation. More than three dozen others were injured in the 2:10 a.m. bombing that reduced the Medecins Sans Frontieres-operated hospital to burning rubble. Another 30 were reported missing. The nine staffers killed were all local residents. “I managed to escape after the attack but I know that most of the staff and even some of the patients are missing,” Dr. Adil Akbar said after fleeing from the flames. The blasts struck the emergency room and operating center, he said. Doctors Without Borders released a statement saying the bombing continued for 30 minutes after American and Afghan authorities were notified they were targeting a medical facility. The humanitarian group “urgently seeks clarity on exactly what took place and how this terrible event could have happened.” The whereabouts of their facility — holding more than 100 patients and 80 staffers during the blasts — was repeatedly shared with U.S. forces… Read full this story
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