Medical charity MSF Thursday released chilling details from a devastating U.S. bombing of an Afghan hospital, saying staff and patients had been decapitated and lost their limbs with some gunned down from the air.
The raid on Oct. 3 in the northern city in Kunduz killed at least 30 people, sparking an avalanche of global condemnation and forcing the French-founded charity to close the trauma center.
An AC-130 gunship repeatedly bombed the hospital for around an hour even as MSF staff sent out harrowing messages to officials in Kabul and Washington, informing them of heavy casualties, the charity said in an internal review of the strike.
The review described patients burning in their beds, medical staff decapitated by shrapnel and a nurse who suffered a "traumatic amputation" in the attack.
People were shot at, apparently from the plane, as they tried to flee the burning building, with some eyewitnesses cited in the report saying the shooting appeared to follow those on the run.
"The view from inside the hospital is that this attack was conducted with a purpose to kill and destroy," MSF general director Christopher Stokes said in Kabul while releasing an internal review of the strike.
"But we don't know why. We don't have the view from the cockpit, nor what happened within the U.S. and Afghan military chains of command."
MSF said the raid, which occurred after the Taliban's brief but bloody capture of Kunduz, persistently targeted the main building housing the intensive care unit and emergency rooms despite desperate pleas to officials...
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The raid on Oct. 3 in the northern city in Kunduz killed at least 30 people, sparking an avalanche of global condemnation and forcing the French-founded charity to close the trauma center.
An AC-130 gunship repeatedly bombed the hospital for around an hour even as MSF staff sent out harrowing messages to officials in Kabul and Washington, informing them of heavy casualties, the charity said in an internal review of the strike.
The review described patients burning in their beds, medical staff decapitated by shrapnel and a nurse who suffered a "traumatic amputation" in the attack.
People were shot at, apparently from the plane, as they tried to flee the burning building, with some eyewitnesses cited in the report saying the shooting appeared to follow those on the run.
"The view from inside the hospital is that this attack was conducted with a purpose to kill and destroy," MSF general director Christopher Stokes said in Kabul while releasing an internal review of the strike.
"But we don't know why. We don't have the view from the cockpit, nor what happened within the U.S. and Afghan military chains of command."
MSF said the raid, which occurred after the Taliban's brief but bloody capture of Kunduz, persistently targeted the main building housing the intensive care unit and emergency rooms despite desperate pleas to officials...
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Angriff auf MSF-Krankenhaus in Kundus: US-Kampfjet schoss auf flüchtende Überlebende...
ReplyDeleteEin US-Kampfjet hat am 3. Oktober auf Insassen des Krankenhauses der “Ärzte ohne Grenzen” in Kundus (Afghanistan – Anm. d. Red.) geschossen, die versuchten, das brennende Gebäude zu verlassen, teilt NBC News unter Berufung auf die internationale Wohltätigkeitsorganisation mit.
„30 unserer Patienten und des medizinischen Personals sind (bei dem Bombenangriff) ums Leben gekommen“, berichtete der Generaldirektor der Organisation, Christopher Stokes, in Kabul zu den Folgen des Zwischenfalls.
Stokes zufolge seien einige der Opfer bei dem Feuerangriff regelrecht zerfetzt, teilweise seien Arme, Beine und Köpfe abgerissen worden. Andere seien bei dem Versuch, das brennende Gebäude zu verlassen, von einem Kampfjet erschossen worden, so der Chef der Organisation.
Das Krankenhaus wurde bei dem Bombenangriff teilweise zerstört. Der Befehlshaber des US-Militärkontingentes in Afghanistan, General John Campbell, hat am 6. Oktober den Beschuss durch die US-Armee zugegeben und betont, dass es ein „Irrtum“ gewesen sei. In dem Krankenhaus sollen sich zu dem Zeitpunkt des Angriffs rund 200 Menschen aufgehalten haben.
Dem Sprecher des Weißen Hauses, Josh Earnest, zufolge ermitteln das Pentagon und die Nato zu dem Zwischenfall. Auch Vertreter der USA und Afghanistans hätten eine gemeinsame Untersuchung eingeleitet, so Earnest.
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6/11/15