- Sputnik International
World
Get the latest news from around the world, live coverage, off-beat stories, features and analysis.

US Military Personnel Get Administrative Punishment Over Kunduz Bombing

© Photo : media.msf.org/Victor J. BlueA man wearing a surgical mask walks, 14 October 2015, amongst the debris of the damaged and burnt-out MSF Trauma Centre in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan
A man wearing a surgical mask walks, 14 October 2015, amongst the debris of the damaged and burnt-out MSF Trauma Centre in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan - Sputnik International
Subscribe
Over a dozen US military personnel have been punished for actions that led to the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontiers, or MSF) hospital in Afghanistan last year, The New York Post reports.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The disciplinary measures are mostly administrative and the military personnel do not face any criminal charges, the newspaper said on Wednesday citing US defense officials.

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 15, 201,5 file photo, U.S. soldiers walk into the charred remains of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan - Sputnik International
World
Doctors Without Borders Demands New Independent Probe into Hospital Attacks

On October 3, 2015, a US AC-130 gunship aircraft shot 30mm cannon shells for 30 minutes into an MSF hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz, killing over 40 medical staff and patients, including children.

Doctors Without Borders called the attack a war crime.

In late November 2015, US forces Commander in Afghanistan Gen. John Campbell told reporters the Kunduz bombing was an avoidable mistake caused by human error.

© AFP 2023 / Najim RAHIM In this photograph taken on November 10 ,2015, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) staff walk in the damaged Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in northern Kunduz
In this photograph taken on November 10 ,2015, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) staff walk in the damaged Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in northern Kunduz - Sputnik International
In this photograph taken on November 10 ,2015, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) staff walk in the damaged Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in northern Kunduz

Newsfeed
0
To participate in the discussion
log in or register
loader
Chats
Заголовок открываемого материала