The air strike, which killed at least 30 people, including women, children and medical staff, sparked global condemnation.
Staff described the ground shaking as the facility was hit with "massive explosions," one after another.
In an interview with the surviving medics, many said they saw doctors, staff and patients shot by the plane as they tried to flee the main hospital building that was being hit with each airstrike. Some accounts mention shooting that appears to follow the movement of people on the run.
Others described seeing people “running while on fire and then falling unconscious on the ground.” One Doctors Without Borders (MSF) staff member described a patient in a wheelchair attempting to escape from the inpatient department when he was killed by shrapnel from a blast, the report found. Many of the casualties were the doctors themselves.
One medic suffered a "traumatic amputation" when he lost his legs in one of the blasts. Sadly his injuries were too severe and he died on a make-shift operating table on an office desk. Another MSF staff was "decapitated by shrapnel in the airstrikes."
MSF received a call on Oct. 1 from a U.S. official in Washington asking if there were a large number of Taliban "holed up" in the Kunduz clinic or any other MSF locations. The official was told the hospital was “full of patients including wounded Taliban combatants.”
President Barack Obama apologized for the air strikes which he admitted were a mistake.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-bombed-forces-finds-no-armed-men-inside.html
Staff described the ground shaking as the facility was hit with "massive explosions," one after another.
In an interview with the surviving medics, many said they saw doctors, staff and patients shot by the plane as they tried to flee the main hospital building that was being hit with each airstrike. Some accounts mention shooting that appears to follow the movement of people on the run.
Others described seeing people “running while on fire and then falling unconscious on the ground.” One Doctors Without Borders (MSF) staff member described a patient in a wheelchair attempting to escape from the inpatient department when he was killed by shrapnel from a blast, the report found. Many of the casualties were the doctors themselves.
One medic suffered a "traumatic amputation" when he lost his legs in one of the blasts. Sadly his injuries were too severe and he died on a make-shift operating table on an office desk. Another MSF staff was "decapitated by shrapnel in the airstrikes."
MSF received a call on Oct. 1 from a U.S. official in Washington asking if there were a large number of Taliban "holed up" in the Kunduz clinic or any other MSF locations. The official was told the hospital was “full of patients including wounded Taliban combatants.”
President Barack Obama apologized for the air strikes which he admitted were a mistake.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-bombed-forces-finds-no-armed-men-inside.html
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