The US military said it launched an attack around the time a M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) charity hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz was hit by an airstrike, killing 19 people: staff, patients and children.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe strike may have led to collateral damage to a nearby medical facility,\u201d according to a statement from US Army Colonel Brian Tribus, Spokesman for US Forces in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
UN Human Rights chief Zeid Ra\u2019ad Al Hussein led a chorus of condemnation, noting that an assault on a hospital could amount to a war crime.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis event is utterly tragic, inexcusable, and possibly even criminal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The medical charity, also known as Doctors Without Borders, said its staff phoned military officials at NATO in Kabul and Washington during the morning attack, but bombs continued to rain down for nearly an hour.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll indications currently point to the bombing being carried out by international Coalition forces,\u201d MSF said, demanding \u201ca full and transparent account\u201d (\u2026)
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The US military said it launched an attack around the time a M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) charity hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz was hit by an airstrike, killing 19 people: staff, patients and children. \u201cThe strike may have led to collateral damage to a nearby medical facility,\u201d according to a statement from US […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[126,631,632,124,633],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-and-oceania","tag-attack","tag-human-rights-chief","tag-kunduz","tag-un","tag-war-crime"],"yoast_head":"\n