Doctors Without Borders says U.S. airstrike hit hospital in Afghanistan; at least 19 dead, U.S. armament may acquire afield austere a hospital in arctic Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at atomic 19 people, including three children, in an adventure that will acceptable accession new questions about the ambit of American captivation in the country’s 14-year war.
In a statement, Doctors Afterwards Borders said an airstrike “partially destroyed” its agony hospital in Kunduz, breadth the Afghan aggressive has been aggravating to drive Taliban fighters from the city.
The airstrike asleep at atomic 12 Doctors Afterwards Borders agents members, the accumulation said. Three accouchement were aswell reportedly killed. At atomic 37 added humans were actively injured, including 19 agents associates and 18 patients and caretakers. Admiral warned the afterlife assessment could acceleration as dozens of humans abide unaccounted for.
“This advance is abhorrent and a grave abuse of All-embracing Altruistic Law,” Meinie Nicolai, the group’s president, said in a statement.
Nicolai alleged for an absolute analysis into the incident: “We appeal absolute accuracy from Affiliation forces. We cannot acquire that this alarming accident of activity will artlessly be absolved as ‘collateral damage.’”
The United Nations’ top animal rights official aswell alleged for an absolute investigation, while equating the airstrike on the hospital to a war crime.
“This accident is absolutely tragic, inexcusable, and possibly even criminal,” Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the U.N. High Commissioner for Animal Rights, said in a statement.
“This acutely abominable accident should be promptly, thoroughly and apart advised and the after-effects should be fabricated public,” he said. “The calmness of the adventure is accent by the actuality that, if accustomed as advised in a cloister of law, an airstrike on a hospital may bulk to a war crime.”
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter issued a account saying: “While we are still aggravating to actuate absolutely what happened, I wish to extend my thoughts and prayers to anybody affected. A abounding analysis into the adverse adventure is underway in allocation with the Afghan government.”
Doctors Afterwards Borders said its adeptness came beneath advance alpha at 2:08 a.m. It was hit by a alternation of aeriform bombardments, abiding until 3:15 a.m. The capital axial hospital building, apartment the accelerated affliction unit, emergency rooms, and physiotherapy ward, was again hit actual absolutely during anniversary aeriform raid, the accumulation says, while surrounding barrio were larboard mostly untouched.
The bombing afflicted the actual agents to set up a makeshift operating allowance in the absolute breadth of the facility, but actively blood-soaked patients had to be beatific to the abutting hospital, two hours drive away.
“Besides consistent in the deaths of our colleagues and patients, this advance has cut off admission to burning agony affliction for the citizenry in Kunduz at a time if its casework are a lot of needed,” Nicolai said in the statement.
Military admiral in Afghanistan accepted that there was an airstrike, adage it was targeted at insurgents battlefront on U.S. servicemembers acceptable Afghan Aegis Forces.
“I am acquainted of an adventure that occurred at a Doctors afterwards Borders hospital in Kunduz city-limits today,” said Gen. John F. Campbell, administrator of U.S. armament in Afghanistan. “I acquire announced with [Afghanistan] Admiral Ghani apropos today’s events. While we plan to thoroughly appraise the adventure and actuate what happened, my thoughts and prayers are with those affected.”
Over the accomplished week, U.S. aggressive jets acquire conducted abundant airstrikes in Kunduz afterwards the Taliban afflicted Afghan aegis armament on Monday. American Appropriate Operations troops and on-the-ground aggressive admiral from the NATO affiliation aswell acquire been acceptable Afghan forces.
Kunduz citizen Mirza Langhmani has counted 30 to 35 airstrikes in the breadth over the accomplished 5 days. U.S. armament conducted 12 of them, including the one doubtable of arresting the hospital on Saturday, a affiliation agent said. Afghan armament are aswell accustomed out strikes.
A U.S. aggressive official, speaking on action of anonymity to allege freely, said U.S. appropriate armament soldiers were on the arena advising Afghan appropriate forces. The official said that the U.S. troops detected admission blaze from the Taliban, so an AC-130 gunship was accustomed to acknowledgment fire, at an breadth that was allegedly abutting to the hospital.
The official said a baronial administrator is on the way to advance the investigation.
The AC-130 gunship, frequently accepted as the Spectre, is a admired of appropriate operation forces. It has an adeptness to break aloft a ambition for connected amounts of time and carries a amount of weapons, including a 105mm cannon that is distinctively army to be accursed from the air.
As able-bodied as a ample amount of weapons, the gunship has bittersweet sensors that allows it to see targets at night. Because of its size, low-altitude flight arrangement and vulnerability to arena fire, AC-130s rarely fly air abutment during aurora hours.
The Doctors Afterwards Borders adeptness was the alone anatomic hospital in that allotment of Afghanistan. The alignment acquaint photographs on Twitter assuming allotment of the hospital was engulfed in bonfire anon afterwards the attack.
As the Afghan army battled Taliban fighters in the streets of Kunduz this week, the hospital has been disturbing to amusement hundreds of patients. At the time of Saturday’s airstrike, 105 patients and added than 80 doctors and nurses were central the hospital, according to Doctors Afterwards Borders.
In contempo days, Doctors Afterwards Borders issued common updates to the media account the ache of aggravating to cope with the arrival of patients. The hospital was aswell reportedly active low on supplies.
Officials with the abatement accumulation again abreast the U.S.-led affiliation of the hospital’s absolute GPS coordinates over the accomplished few months, hospital admiral said. The area of the hospital was endure conveyed to the all-embracing affiliation three canicule ago, admiral added.
Once the airstrike began Saturday, hospital admiral anon accomplished out to U.S. aggressive admiral in Kabul and Washington, according to Jason Cone, controlling administrator of Doctors Afterwards Borders in the United States.
“The bombing connected for added than 30 account afterwards American and Afghan aggressive admiral in Kabul and Washington were aboriginal informed,” the alignment said in a statement.
On Saturday morning, the Taliban accused the U.S.-led affiliation of “savagery” and a “barbaric act.”
The All-embracing Red Cross aswell accursed the bombing.
“This is an alarming tragedy,” said Jean-Nicolas Marti, administrator of Red Cross operations in Afghanistan. “Such attacks adjoin bloom workers and accessories attenuate the accommodation of humanitarians to abetment the Afghan people.”
In a abstracted statement, the U.S. Admiral in Kabul said it “mourns for the individuals and families afflicted by the adverse incident.”
“Doctors Afterwards Borders performs agitating plan throughout the world, including Afghanistan, and our thoughts and prayers are with their aggregation at this difficult moment,” the admiral said. “We abide acutely anxious about the advancing abandon in Kunduz and the difficult altruistic bearings faced by its residents.”
On Saturday morning, Doctors Afterwards Borders broadcast photographs assuming the after-effects of the bombing. In one photo, a health-care artisan in blood-stained scrubs awash in a bend with addition man. Addition photograph showed doctors and nurses operating on a accommodating in an absolute breadth of the hospital.
Hospital admiral are aggravating to abandon alarmingly blood-soaked patients to addition adeptness two hours away, a chancy adventure as angry angry continues beyond swaths of northeastern Afghanistan.
Doctors Afterwards Borders was one the endure actual all-embracing abatement organizations in Kunduz. The United Nations and several added abatement groups abandoned their staffers on Monday as the Taliban avant-garde into the city.
Concerns about noncombatant casualties in Kunduz, Afghanistan’s sixth better city, acquire been ascent all week.
Abdul Qahar Aram, agent for the Afghan Army’s 209th Corps in arctic Afghanistan, on Saturday said Taliban fighters are now ambuscade in “people’s houses, mosques and hospitals application civilians as animal shields.”
Afghan Admiral Ashraf Ghani on Thursday said those apropos were one acumen Afghan aegis armament were getting alert in their efforts to balance the city.
Afghan soldiers were aggressive militants abreast the Doctors Afterwards Borders hospital if Saturday’s airstrike took place, said Laghmani.
“The Taliban are demography and evacuating their blood-soaked fighters to the hospital for treatment,” said Laghmani, who said the active accumulation still controls a lot of of the city. “It was the alone avant-garde hospital, and it was operating beneath good, adopted leadership.”
Sultan Arab, a bounded badge administrator in Kunduz, said the hospital came beneath an airstrike, “because the Taliban had confused their command centermost central the hospital.”
In a statement, the Taliban denied any of its fighters were at the hospital at the time of the airstrike.
A Doctors Afterwards Borders backer beneath to animadversion on the allegations, but acclaimed the alignment “treats every accommodating irrespective of whether they are aggressive or civilian.” In 1999, the alignment was accustomed with the Nobel Peace Prize for its work.
Langhmani said Kunduz faces a deepening altruistic crisis.
“The asleep bodies are lying on the streets, both the Taliban and aswell civilians, and no one is accustomed to aces up the bodies,” Langhmani said. “There is aswell an electricity shortage, a baptize curtailment additional a aliment shortage.”
Over the accomplished decade, U.S. airstrikes acquire been arguable in Afghanistan because of the accident of noncombatant causalities and alleged affable blaze incidents.
During his final years in office, above Afghan admiral Hamid Karzai again accused the United States aggressive of getting adventuresome in how it agitated out airstrikes. Afterwards Ghani replaced Karzai endure year, relations amid the Afghan government and affiliation admiral bigger dramatically.
But in July, a affiliation airstrike asleep 10 Afghan soldiers, bounded admiral said. Endure month, Afghan admiral accused the all-embracing affiliation of killing 11 counternarcotic admiral during an airstrike in Helmand Province.
Coalition admiral initially denied involvement. But they issued addition account a day after abandoning that denial, adage the amount was now beneath investigation.
A Kunduz official wants the air attack to abide admitting bounded residents’ acrimony about the bang that damaged the hospital.
“I accept it is absurd to advance aback the Taliban from the city-limits afterwards airstrikes,” bounded badge administrator Sultan Arab said. “Airstrikes acquire been so able in Kunduz.”
Langhmani said he and abounding added Kunduz association aswell still wish the U.S. military’s advice adjoin the Taliban.
“But we wish absolute airstrikes,” Langhmani said. “If there is addition like the one that at (the hospital), the humans ability acceleration up adjoin both the government and the Taliban.”
In a statement, Doctors Afterwards Borders said an airstrike “partially destroyed” its agony hospital in Kunduz, breadth the Afghan aggressive has been aggravating to drive Taliban fighters from the city.
The airstrike asleep at atomic 12 Doctors Afterwards Borders agents members, the accumulation said. Three accouchement were aswell reportedly killed. At atomic 37 added humans were actively injured, including 19 agents associates and 18 patients and caretakers. Admiral warned the afterlife assessment could acceleration as dozens of humans abide unaccounted for.
“This advance is abhorrent and a grave abuse of All-embracing Altruistic Law,” Meinie Nicolai, the group’s president, said in a statement.
Nicolai alleged for an absolute analysis into the incident: “We appeal absolute accuracy from Affiliation forces. We cannot acquire that this alarming accident of activity will artlessly be absolved as ‘collateral damage.’”
The United Nations’ top animal rights official aswell alleged for an absolute investigation, while equating the airstrike on the hospital to a war crime.
“This accident is absolutely tragic, inexcusable, and possibly even criminal,” Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the U.N. High Commissioner for Animal Rights, said in a statement.
“This acutely abominable accident should be promptly, thoroughly and apart advised and the after-effects should be fabricated public,” he said. “The calmness of the adventure is accent by the actuality that, if accustomed as advised in a cloister of law, an airstrike on a hospital may bulk to a war crime.”
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter issued a account saying: “While we are still aggravating to actuate absolutely what happened, I wish to extend my thoughts and prayers to anybody affected. A abounding analysis into the adverse adventure is underway in allocation with the Afghan government.”
Doctors Afterwards Borders said its adeptness came beneath advance alpha at 2:08 a.m. It was hit by a alternation of aeriform bombardments, abiding until 3:15 a.m. The capital axial hospital building, apartment the accelerated affliction unit, emergency rooms, and physiotherapy ward, was again hit actual absolutely during anniversary aeriform raid, the accumulation says, while surrounding barrio were larboard mostly untouched.
The bombing afflicted the actual agents to set up a makeshift operating allowance in the absolute breadth of the facility, but actively blood-soaked patients had to be beatific to the abutting hospital, two hours drive away.
“Besides consistent in the deaths of our colleagues and patients, this advance has cut off admission to burning agony affliction for the citizenry in Kunduz at a time if its casework are a lot of needed,” Nicolai said in the statement.
Military admiral in Afghanistan accepted that there was an airstrike, adage it was targeted at insurgents battlefront on U.S. servicemembers acceptable Afghan Aegis Forces.
“I am acquainted of an adventure that occurred at a Doctors afterwards Borders hospital in Kunduz city-limits today,” said Gen. John F. Campbell, administrator of U.S. armament in Afghanistan. “I acquire announced with [Afghanistan] Admiral Ghani apropos today’s events. While we plan to thoroughly appraise the adventure and actuate what happened, my thoughts and prayers are with those affected.”
Over the accomplished week, U.S. aggressive jets acquire conducted abundant airstrikes in Kunduz afterwards the Taliban afflicted Afghan aegis armament on Monday. American Appropriate Operations troops and on-the-ground aggressive admiral from the NATO affiliation aswell acquire been acceptable Afghan forces.
Kunduz citizen Mirza Langhmani has counted 30 to 35 airstrikes in the breadth over the accomplished 5 days. U.S. armament conducted 12 of them, including the one doubtable of arresting the hospital on Saturday, a affiliation agent said. Afghan armament are aswell accustomed out strikes.
A U.S. aggressive official, speaking on action of anonymity to allege freely, said U.S. appropriate armament soldiers were on the arena advising Afghan appropriate forces. The official said that the U.S. troops detected admission blaze from the Taliban, so an AC-130 gunship was accustomed to acknowledgment fire, at an breadth that was allegedly abutting to the hospital.
The official said a baronial administrator is on the way to advance the investigation.
The AC-130 gunship, frequently accepted as the Spectre, is a admired of appropriate operation forces. It has an adeptness to break aloft a ambition for connected amounts of time and carries a amount of weapons, including a 105mm cannon that is distinctively army to be accursed from the air.
As able-bodied as a ample amount of weapons, the gunship has bittersweet sensors that allows it to see targets at night. Because of its size, low-altitude flight arrangement and vulnerability to arena fire, AC-130s rarely fly air abutment during aurora hours.
The Doctors Afterwards Borders adeptness was the alone anatomic hospital in that allotment of Afghanistan. The alignment acquaint photographs on Twitter assuming allotment of the hospital was engulfed in bonfire anon afterwards the attack.
As the Afghan army battled Taliban fighters in the streets of Kunduz this week, the hospital has been disturbing to amusement hundreds of patients. At the time of Saturday’s airstrike, 105 patients and added than 80 doctors and nurses were central the hospital, according to Doctors Afterwards Borders.
In contempo days, Doctors Afterwards Borders issued common updates to the media account the ache of aggravating to cope with the arrival of patients. The hospital was aswell reportedly active low on supplies.
Officials with the abatement accumulation again abreast the U.S.-led affiliation of the hospital’s absolute GPS coordinates over the accomplished few months, hospital admiral said. The area of the hospital was endure conveyed to the all-embracing affiliation three canicule ago, admiral added.
Once the airstrike began Saturday, hospital admiral anon accomplished out to U.S. aggressive admiral in Kabul and Washington, according to Jason Cone, controlling administrator of Doctors Afterwards Borders in the United States.
“The bombing connected for added than 30 account afterwards American and Afghan aggressive admiral in Kabul and Washington were aboriginal informed,” the alignment said in a statement.
On Saturday morning, the Taliban accused the U.S.-led affiliation of “savagery” and a “barbaric act.”
The All-embracing Red Cross aswell accursed the bombing.
“This is an alarming tragedy,” said Jean-Nicolas Marti, administrator of Red Cross operations in Afghanistan. “Such attacks adjoin bloom workers and accessories attenuate the accommodation of humanitarians to abetment the Afghan people.”
In a abstracted statement, the U.S. Admiral in Kabul said it “mourns for the individuals and families afflicted by the adverse incident.”
“Doctors Afterwards Borders performs agitating plan throughout the world, including Afghanistan, and our thoughts and prayers are with their aggregation at this difficult moment,” the admiral said. “We abide acutely anxious about the advancing abandon in Kunduz and the difficult altruistic bearings faced by its residents.”
On Saturday morning, Doctors Afterwards Borders broadcast photographs assuming the after-effects of the bombing. In one photo, a health-care artisan in blood-stained scrubs awash in a bend with addition man. Addition photograph showed doctors and nurses operating on a accommodating in an absolute breadth of the hospital.
Hospital admiral are aggravating to abandon alarmingly blood-soaked patients to addition adeptness two hours away, a chancy adventure as angry angry continues beyond swaths of northeastern Afghanistan.
Doctors Afterwards Borders was one the endure actual all-embracing abatement organizations in Kunduz. The United Nations and several added abatement groups abandoned their staffers on Monday as the Taliban avant-garde into the city.
Concerns about noncombatant casualties in Kunduz, Afghanistan’s sixth better city, acquire been ascent all week.
Abdul Qahar Aram, agent for the Afghan Army’s 209th Corps in arctic Afghanistan, on Saturday said Taliban fighters are now ambuscade in “people’s houses, mosques and hospitals application civilians as animal shields.”
Afghan Admiral Ashraf Ghani on Thursday said those apropos were one acumen Afghan aegis armament were getting alert in their efforts to balance the city.
Afghan soldiers were aggressive militants abreast the Doctors Afterwards Borders hospital if Saturday’s airstrike took place, said Laghmani.
“The Taliban are demography and evacuating their blood-soaked fighters to the hospital for treatment,” said Laghmani, who said the active accumulation still controls a lot of of the city. “It was the alone avant-garde hospital, and it was operating beneath good, adopted leadership.”
Sultan Arab, a bounded badge administrator in Kunduz, said the hospital came beneath an airstrike, “because the Taliban had confused their command centermost central the hospital.”
In a statement, the Taliban denied any of its fighters were at the hospital at the time of the airstrike.
A Doctors Afterwards Borders backer beneath to animadversion on the allegations, but acclaimed the alignment “treats every accommodating irrespective of whether they are aggressive or civilian.” In 1999, the alignment was accustomed with the Nobel Peace Prize for its work.
Langhmani said Kunduz faces a deepening altruistic crisis.
“The asleep bodies are lying on the streets, both the Taliban and aswell civilians, and no one is accustomed to aces up the bodies,” Langhmani said. “There is aswell an electricity shortage, a baptize curtailment additional a aliment shortage.”
Over the accomplished decade, U.S. airstrikes acquire been arguable in Afghanistan because of the accident of noncombatant causalities and alleged affable blaze incidents.
During his final years in office, above Afghan admiral Hamid Karzai again accused the United States aggressive of getting adventuresome in how it agitated out airstrikes. Afterwards Ghani replaced Karzai endure year, relations amid the Afghan government and affiliation admiral bigger dramatically.
But in July, a affiliation airstrike asleep 10 Afghan soldiers, bounded admiral said. Endure month, Afghan admiral accused the all-embracing affiliation of killing 11 counternarcotic admiral during an airstrike in Helmand Province.
Coalition admiral initially denied involvement. But they issued addition account a day after abandoning that denial, adage the amount was now beneath investigation.
A Kunduz official wants the air attack to abide admitting bounded residents’ acrimony about the bang that damaged the hospital.
“I accept it is absurd to advance aback the Taliban from the city-limits afterwards airstrikes,” bounded badge administrator Sultan Arab said. “Airstrikes acquire been so able in Kunduz.”
Langhmani said he and abounding added Kunduz association aswell still wish the U.S. military’s advice adjoin the Taliban.
“But we wish absolute airstrikes,” Langhmani said. “If there is addition like the one that at (the hospital), the humans ability acceleration up adjoin both the government and the Taliban.”
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