(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) The death toll from the US airstrike on a hospital in northern Afghanistan rose to 30, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) announced.
"Nearly three weeks on from the US bombing of the Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) trauma center in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on October 3, MSF today announces with sadness that the death toll is still rising," MSF states in a statement.
"A total of 30 people are now confirmed dead due to the October 3 attacks, up from 22, as was reported earlier. One additional MSF staff member was recently confirmed to have died, which means that MSF has confirmed that the assault killed a total of 13 MSF staff members and 10 patients. Seven other bodies were found in the wreckage but could not be identified; it is presumed that one of those was an MSF staff member and two were patients, but that has not yet been confirmed. The identities of the others remain unknown to date. All have been buried." The statement further states that so far MSF confirms 27 staff injured, in addition to many patients and caretakers, according to the Afghan (Khamma Press).
Pentagon has said that the wounded victims and families those killed in the air strike would be compensated with "condolence payments".
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