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Wednesday 07 Oct 2015 - 13:41 Makkah mean time-24-12-1436
Pic: UN News Center
Geneva (IINA) – The United Nations has said that there are currently no humanitarian agencies left in the north-eastern Afghan city of Kunduz, where an air strike hit the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital, causing the deaths and injuries of several medical personnel, patients and other civilians, UN News Center reported.
“The big picture is that international aid agencies have been forced out of the city for the time being, so there is essentially no proper health and trauma care for those left there,” UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) spokesman Jens Laerke told a briefing here on Tuesday.
The MSF hospital had been the only facility of its kind in the entire north-eastern region, serving some 300,000 people in Kunduz alone. Fighting between armed groups and government forces is ongoing, the airport is closed to civilian aircraft and there is no road access into the city because of road side bombs, ambushes and road blocks," Laerke said.
Ahmad Fawzi, interim Director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, noted that it was the UN Secretary General himself who had called over the weekend for a “thorough and impartial investigation into the attack in order to ensure accountability”.
A statement issued Saturday by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) noted that according to MSF, pro-government forces had been informed of the precise location of the medical facilities.
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