Early this morning an US airstrike had accidently hit an Afghan hospital. The US had bombed the Afghan city of Kunduz as they believed the Taliban had recently taken control of the city last Monday. But, unfortunately the aerial attack had damaged and killed people at the local hospital including terrorists that were hiding inside the hospital. The US had released a statement saying that it was caused by collateral damage and that they had no intentions of bombing the hospital although it appeared that way because they did kill terrorists in the hospital but also innocent doctors and workers as well. They said they were threatened by forces which led to the attack and a total of nine people have been reported dead with several other severely injured. The Afghan government and the Taliban had been going back and forth trying to gain control of Kunduz. The US had been helping the government with airstrikes and other international forces had been helping them on the ground to prevent the Taliban of taking control. Hurting and killing staff members of the local hospital obviously wasn't the United States intentions but they felt threatened so they had to react accordingly. I'm sure we will be hearing more of this in the next couple days.
Hayden Witt
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/03/three-medecins-sans-frontieres-staff-killed-in-afghanistan-hospital-bombing
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