MSF staff inside destroyed hospital in Kunduz where 22 patients and staff were killed in a US bombing raid on October 3, 2015. Demotix/ Wakif Nasirahmad. All rights reserved.Out of the darkness of the Afghan night, in the skies over the Kunduz Trauma Centre, the faint drone of propellers could be heard. Then, the bombing began.
The intensive care unit (ICU), where the most critically ill adults and children silently lay, kept alive only by ventilators, was first to be hit. For the next hour the American AC-130 gunship circled its target, unleashing “concentrated volleys” of rockets on the medical centre. As staff escaped the building and fled, they were cut down by machine gun fire from above.
