KUNDUZ, AFGHANISTAN-- The U.S. has taken responsibility for a deadly air strike on a hospital run by medical charity Doctors Without Borders or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the northeastern Afghanistan city of Kunduz.
Reuters reports that both U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Army General John Campbell acknowledged the air strike on the MSF hospital as being carried out by U.S. forces. Campbell has called the strike a mistake, adding that the U.S. would not intentionally target a medical facility.
Afghan troops were allegedly fighting a large number of Taliban fighters near the Doctors without Borders hospital in Kunduz on Saturday when they requested for U.S. air support, according to Al Jazeera. U.S. forces sent in an AC-130 gunship in response to the request, and mistakenly targeted and fired on the hospital around 2 a.m. local time, when most of the facility's 180 patients and staff were sleeping. The hour-long attack killed 22 civilians, including three children. Thirty-seven more were injured, 19 of whom were MSF staff. The medical charity has dismissed the U.S. government's explanation of the attack, calling it a war crime, and demanding an independent investigation into the incident, the BBC reported.
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