The U.S. airstrike that killed 30 people at a Doctor Without Borders hospital in northern Afghanistan last month happened inadvertently, with U.S. personnel mistakenly believing they were firing at combatants who were reported at a different building, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday.
An investigation determined the strike in Kunduz “was the direct result of human error compounded by systems and procedural failures,” Gen. John Campbell said. U.S. forces involved in the strike did not know the target was a hospital, Campbell said.
