A major international medical aid agency Thursday lashed out at Afghan special forces for an "unacceptable" raid on a treatment centre that led to the facility being closed temporarily.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, said armed members of the Afghan special forces entered its trauma centre in the northern province of Kunduz on Wednesday and "behaved violently towards staff".
Kunduz has become a key battleground as the Taliban wage their annual summer offensive, with fierce fighting raging there in recent weeks and the militants coming close to seizing the provincial capital. "This incident is an unacceptable breach of the guarantee of safe treatment of patients within MSF medical facilities," Bart Janssens, MSF's director of operations in Afghanistan, said in a statement.
Comments
Comments are closed.