Pentagon to declassify summary of report on Medecins Sans Frontieres’ Afghan hospital attack
Pentagon will be releasing the declassified summary of its report on the Medecins Sans Frontieres' Afghan hospital attack. This attack took place on Saturday 3 October 2015 and it claimed about 30 lives when the MSF Kunduz Trauma Centre was hit by bombs allegedly from the coalition forces operating in Afghanistan. According to MSF, among the 30 dead about 10 were known patients, 13 were staff members and 7 dead bodies are still unaccounted for.
"Human errors, failures in procedure and technical malfunctions" are the reasons being quoted by New York Times citing unnamed US military officials for the sad events on 3rd October 2015. According to NYT, a 3,000-page investigative file has been prepared to try and answer the questions of what led to the attack on that day on the Afghan MSF hospital. NYT goes on to report that US Military "crew had been unable to rely on the aircraft’s instruments to find the target. Instead, they relied on verbal descriptions of the location that were being relayed by troops on the ground, a mix of American and Afghan Special Forces."
Declassified summary of @DeptofDefense report on @MSF Kunduz hospital attack due to be released in Kabul today. #Afghanistan
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) November 25, 2015
.@MSF is releasing an internal document with a view from inside our hospital in #kunduz https://t.co/TA59r6uCP8 pic.twitter.com/Ywse9AMNdO — MSF International (@MSF) November 5, 2015
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