UNAMA Records 848 Civilians’ Casualties In Kunduz Attack
KABUL: (MEP) The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has released a report specifying at least 848 Afghan civilians were killed or wounded following a Taliban attack on the northern city of Kunduz in September to 13 October 2015.
The 289 dead and 559 injured included at least 30 killed and 37 injured in a U.S. air strike on a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres, according to report.
The report has been jointly produced by UNAMA and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) but additional information on civilian casualties from the period covered by this report will be detailed in the 2015 Annual Report on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, also produced jointly by UNAMA and OHCHR.
The report not only documents civilian deaths and injuries during the reporting period but also presents preliminary findings on arbitrary killings, abductions, assault and other forms of violence, including threats and widespread criminality, the use of child fighters during the conflict, the impact on access to education, health, and freedom of movement.
According to UNAMA: “The vast majority of these casualties resulted from ground fighting that could not be attributed solely to one party.”
An estimated 150,000 people were trapped in the city by the most prolonged period of urban fighting in Afghanistan since the U.S.-led campaign against the Taliban in 2001.
Some 13,000 families fled, adding to the hundreds of thousands already displaced by violence and lack of security, UNAMA said
