https://news.vice.com/article/16-dead-after-us-airstrike-hits-doctors-without-borders-hospital-in-afghanistan?utm_source=vicenewsfbAn apparent US airstrike on a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders (also known as Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF) in Afghanistan's Kunduz province killed at least 19 people, including 12 staff members, early Saturday morning. The bombing began at 2:08am local time and, according to the humanitarian organization, continued for more than 30 minutes "after American and Afghan military officials in Kabul and Washington were first informed by MSF that its hospital was struck." MSF said seven intensive care patients were killed, including three children. US Forces in Afghanistan acknowledged conducting a strike at 2:15am Saturday morning against "individuals threatening the force." "The strike may have resulted in collateral damage to a nearby medical facility," US Army Colonel Brian Tribus, a spokesman for US forces in Afghanistan said in a statement, adding that the incident is under investigation. Doctors Without Borders, which operates in conflict zones around the world, said on Saturday it had communicated the precise GPS coordinates of the hospital to officials in Washington and Kabul multiple times over the past several months, and as recently as Monday, September 29.
