MSF Awaits Confirmation US Servicemen Only Disciplined for Hospital Attack

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF, or Doctors Without Borders) is waiting for an official US confirmation that the military personnel responsible for an attack on a MSF hospital in Afghanistan have been disciplined but will not face any criminal charges, a press officer for the aid agency told Sputnik on Thursday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik), Alexander Mosesov — On Wednesday, media reports surfaced that over a dozen US military personnel had been punished for actions that led to the bombing of the MSF hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz on October 3, 2015. The disciplinary measures are mostly administrative and the military personnel do not face any criminal charges.

"We don't know if it's true, that's the problem, because [the US Department of] Defense haven't announced it and they have not spoken to us," the press officer said.

The press officer also added that MSF would not comment on the reports until it has received official Department of Defense (DoD) confirmation.

A US AC-130 gunship aircraft shot 30mm cannon shells into the MSF hospital in Kunduz for 30 minutes, killing over 40 medical staff and patients, including children.

Medecins Sans Frontieres called the attack a war crime.

In November 2015, the commander of the US forces in Afghanistan, Gen. John Campbell, told reporters the Kunduz bombing was an avoidable mistake caused by human error.