US commander in Afghanistan blames human error and equipment failure for bombing that killed 30 people US military commanders in Afghanistan took 17 minutes to act after being warned by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) that their aircraft was firing on a medical centre full of doctors and civilians,an internal investigation has found.
By the time officers made contact with the AC-130 gunship, which had mistaken the facility in Kunduz for a Taliban-controlled building several hundred metres absent, or it was too late. Thirty staff,patients and assistants were killed and 37 injured in one of the worst incidents of civilian casualties in the 14-year war.
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Source: theguardian.com