(US) Airstrike Hits Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Afghanistan
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/world/asia/afghanistan-bombing-hospital-doctors-without-borders-kunduz.html?action=click&contentCollection=Politics&module=MostPopularFB&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article
KABUL, Afghanistan — A United States airstrike appeared to have badly damaged a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders in the Afghan city of Kunduz early Saturday, killing at least nine hospital staff members and wounding dozens, including patients and staff.
The United States military, in a statement, confirmed the 2:15 a.m. airstrike, saying that it had been targeting individuals “who were threatening the force” and that “there may have been collateral damage to a nearby medical facility.”
Accounts differed as to whether there had been fighting around the hospital that might have precipitated the strike.
Two hospital employees, an aide who was wounded in the bombing and a nurse who emerged unscathed,
said that there had been no active fighting nearby and no Taliban fighters inside the hospital....
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Doctors Without Borders said at least nine members of its staff had been killed and 37 wounded, 19 of them hospital staff members. It described the hospital as “very badly damaged.”
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