Three staff members of medical aid charity Doctors Without Borders were killed and more than 30 people were unaccounted for after a trauma center was hit by aerial bombing early Saturday in Kunduz, Afghanistan, the charity said in a statement.
The medical facility was hit several times.
U.S. forces carried out a strike nearby "against individuals threatening the force" that "may have resulted in collateral damage to a nearby medical facility," Army spokesman Col. Brian Tribus said in a statement.
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