US airstrike targets a hospital in Kunduz instead of Taliban outposts – 9 Doctors Without Borders members killed

It was an airstrike in Afghanistan that went totally haywire and nine local staffers for Doctors Without Borders were killed and 30 were missing after an explosion near their hospital in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz. This is believed to have been caused by a U.S. airstrike.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 3 October 2015.

Afghan forces backed by U.S. airstrikes have been trying to dislodge Taliban insurgents who overran Kunduz and a U.S. Army Colonel has admitted that the strike "may have resulted in collateral damage to a nearby medical facility". The operating theater, emergency room and other parts of the hospital complex were hit in the bombing.
It was the 12th U.S. airstrike "in the Kunduz vicinity" and, at that time, the hospital had 105 patients and their caretakers, apart from more than 80 international and Afghan staff.
Interior Ministry spokesman has added that 10 to 15 "terrorists" had been hiding in the hospital at that time and all of them were eliminated but doctors also lost their lives. However, 80 staff at the hospital, including 15 foreigners, had been taken to safety. Doctors Without Borders have indicated that all of its international staffers were alive and accounted for.
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