US Army Bombed Afghan Hospital Despite Doctors’ Calls for

The bombing of a Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) hospital located in the Afghan city of Kunduz took place on Saturday night. The airstrike is reported to have been carried out by US forces, the reason of the attack is still unclear.

As result of the airstrike, at least 16 people (among them medical workers) were killed and about 37 — including 19 doctors — were injured. Many are still missing.

The representatives of the medical organization stated that the airstrike continued for more than 30 minutes even after the doctors sent a call for help. The reason for why the attack was not immediately stopped after American and Afghan military forces had been informed about the terrible incident is unclear.

The US armed forces declared that there had been an airstrike in the early morning. According to a NATO statement, this was a military operation against Taliban forces that 'may have resulted in collateral damage to a nearby medical facility'. 

Doctors Without Borders condemned the "horrific" attack "with the sharpest possible words" and said that the exact location of the facility had been reported to all parties to the conflict as well as to the governments in Kabul and Washington.