MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Earlier on Sunday, Hamdullah Danishi, the acting governor of the Kunduz Province, said that Taliban militants had used the hospital’s campus and had been routinely firing “small and heavy” weapons from its grounds before it was hit by an airstrike on Saturday.
"We reject reports that any Taliban[s] were inside the hospital at the time of bombing or if any shots were fired," Kate Stegeman, spokeswoman for MSF said, as cited by NBC News.
On Saturday, the hospital accommodating some 200 people was hit by a series of aerial bombing raids. At least 22 people were killed, 37 injured and dozens went missing.
On Sunday, the hospital halted its operations in Kunduz.
Washington and Kabul have launched a joint investigation into the bombing, while the MSF has called for an independent investigation into the attack.
