Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Sunday it has closed the trauma centre, seen as a lifeline in a war-battered region with scant medical care, and demanded an independent probe into Saturday's devastating air raid.
President Barack Obama has promised a full investigation but the international outrage over the deadly incident has piled pressure on Washington for a more transparent probe.
"Under the clear presumption that a war crime has been committed, MSF demands that a full and transparent investigation into the event be conducted by an independent international body," MSF general director Christopher Stokes said.
Stokes also hit out at claims by Afghan officials that insurgents were using the hospital as a position to target Afghan forces and civilians.
"These statements imply that Afghan and US forces working together decided to raze to the ground a fully functioning hospital with more than 180 staff and patients inside because they claim that members of the Taliban were present," he said.
"This amounts to an admission of a war crime. This utterly contradicts the initial attempts of the US government to minimise the attack as 'collateral damage'."...
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A doctor working in the Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Kunduz that was recently bombed by US forces told Sputnik on condition of anonymity that the foreign medical personnel had left the medical facility prior to the airstrike without offering any kind of explanation...
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He also added that the hospital was indeed captured by the Taliban forces which seized Kunduz last week, but was soon liberated and resumed operations............http://sptnkne.ws/RvM