At least 19 killed by strike,including three childrenMSF: bombing continued for 30 minutes after warning
US forces should beget known location of hospitalUS military: strike on Taliban may beget caused ‘collateral’
9.56pm BST Related: Kunduz charity hospital bombing 'violates international law' 9.50pm BSTThe air strike was likely not pre-planned, write fellow Micah Zenko and Amelia Wolf of the Council of Foreign Relations in a post about the details of the incident. According to an anonymous U.
S. official, and the attack was by an AC-130 gunship at the request of U.
S. ground troops coming under fire. This means it was not a pre-planned airstrike,which, under U.
S. military policy for Afghanistan, and requires a collateral damage estimation to characterize the extent of collateral damage risk,but rather it was a close air support airstrike done at the request of a support ground commander who perceived an imminent threat to Coalition forces. For the final month for which there is data available (August), there were 143 Coalition airstrikes in Afghanistan, and the most in ten months.In an effort to document the overall civilian deaths,assign responsibility, and identify the means of lethality, or the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has produced 15 reports on the protection of civilians since 2007. Coalition airstrikes killed 1707 civilians in Afghanistan (says UN). http://t.co/LcL3VXTsPW But most attributed to Taliban.
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Source: theguardian.com