While Russian aircraft are destroying ISIS, the Americans bombed a hospital
American aircraft carried out an erroneous strike on a hospital near the city of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, the American channel reports. Sky News. At least 30 patients and staff died.
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“The United States admitted that it may have killed innocent doctors,” the American television channel reports. “Doctors Without Borders claims that the number of employees who were killed in the US airstrike could be more than 30 people.”
Several medical workers have definitely died; the rest of the staff and patients are still considered missing.
The air raid was carried out at the time of the liberation of the city from the Taliban, which has not yet been completely accomplished. Kunduz was captured by the Taliban last Monday.
NATO spokesman Colonel Brian Trybus reports Sky News, stated that “the incident is under investigation.”
“We are deeply shocked by the attack, the killing of our staff and patients, which will place a heavy burden on healthcare in Kunduz,” Bart Janssens, chief operating officer of the charity Doctors Without Borders, said in a statement.
A Taliban spokesman said none of its fighters were in hospital at the time of the raid.
Let us remind you that the US military officially completed its military mission in Afghanistan nine months ago. A contingent of 13 thousand foreign soldiers remains in Afghanistan. However, the confrontation between government troops and the Taliban has resumed in the country.
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