U.S. airstrike on Doctors Without Borders hospital
U.S. forces bombed a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan on October 3, 2015, killing 30 people. The organization released in internal report November 5, 2015 describing the deaths.
A wounded Afghan man who survived a U.S. airstrike on the MSF hospital in Kunduz receives treatment at the Emergency Hospital in Kabul on October 8, 2015.
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Wounded Afghan boys, who survived a U.S. airstrike on a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders, also known as Medecins Sans Frontieres, in Kunduz receive treatment at the Emergency Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 8, 2015.
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Emergency surgery and medical activities continue in one of the remaining parts of MSF's hospital in Kunduz in the aftermath of the October 3, 2015 bombing.
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A wounded staff member of Medecins Sans Frontieres, survivor of the U.S. airstrike on the MSF Hospital in Kunduz, receives treatment at the Italian aid organization, Emergency Hospital in Kabul on October 6, 2015.
The medical charity MSF branded the incident a war crime.
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Iron roofing and rubble litter a corridor in the MSF Kunduz Trauma Center as the facility lies destroyed following the October 3, 2015 aerial attack on the facility, which killed 30 staff and patients in northern Afghanistan.
The bomb blasts were so strong that the corrugated iron roof caved in here in the blood laboratory corridor, and elsewhere in the hospital building.
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According to MSF, the de-mining team told the organization this artillery shell dropped by the AC-130 was in the hospital.
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An interior view of the MSF Trauma Center on October 14 2015, shows a missile hole in the wall and the burnt-out remains of the building after what MSF described in their report as a sustained attack on the facility in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan.
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A hole where a missile struck is seen October 14, 2015, above the destroyed window of the outpatient department at the MSF Trauma Center in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan.
The main hospital building, housing the emergency room, blood bank, intensive care unit, and out patient department, was heavily bombed in a near continuous barrage for more than one hour, according to witnesses.
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The remains of a bed frame in a room in the eastern wing of the main outpatient department building.
MSF requested the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission be activated to investigate the bombing.
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The charred chasis of an MSF four wheel drive vehicle sits in the yard outside the MSF Kunduz Trauma Center, October 14, 2015.
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MSF workers walk through the destroyed Medicins Sans Frontieres hospital October 14, 2015, after the U.S. airstrike in Kunduz which took place October 3.
According to the MSF report, a hospital worker was decapitated by shrapnel while running for safety. Shrapnel also killed a patient in a wheelchair who was trying to escape from the hospital's inpatient department.
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Satellite image of Kunduz MSF Hospital Trauma Center area on June 21, 2015.