Afghan air strike: Kunduz MSF clinic workers killed
The medical charity MSF says at least three of its staff were killed in the Afghan city of Kunduz after a clinic was hit by an air strike on Saturday.
US forces were carrying out air strikes at the time. The Nato alliance has admitted the clinic may have been hit, the BBC reports. MSF says more than 30 staff are unaccounted for. The hospital had 105 patients at the time.
There has been intense fighting in Kunduz since Taliban fighters swept into the northern city on Monday. It was the first major urban centre to fall to the Taliban in 14 years.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said its clinic was hit several times during "sustained bombing and was very badly damaged" at 02:10 local time (22:40 GMT) on Saturday.
A spokesman for US forces in Afghanistan, Col Brian Tribus, said: "US forces conducted an air strike in Kunduz city at 02:15 (local time)... against individuals threatening the force.
"The strike may have resulted in collateral damage to a nearby medical facility."
The incident is being investigated, he added.