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US general: Afghan hospital bombing a mistake, not a war crime

Published: 29 Apr 2016 - 06:21 pm | Last Updated: 09 Nov 2021 - 04:53 am
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U.S. Army General Joseph Votel, commander, U.S. Central Command, arrives to brief the media at the Pentagon in Washington, U.S. April 29, 2016 about the investigation of the airstrike on the Doctors Without Borders trauma center in Kunduz, Afghanistan on October 3, 2015. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

 

Washington: US forces attacked a Doctors Without Borders hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz last year after a series of errors and will be disciplined, but they did not commit a war crime, their commander said Friday.

General Joseph Votel said that on October 3, 2015, the crew of an AC-130 gunship had taken off earlier than planned without a list of protected sites and had been mistakenly guided to bombard the Kunduz trauma center.

AFP