Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has called for an independent investigation into the deadly bombing of its hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz that killed 22 people.
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According to CNN, aerial bombardments blew apart the medical facility about the time of a U.S. air strike early on Saturday.
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Meanwhile, US Defense Secretary Ashley Carter on Sunday repeated President Barack Obama's promise of a "full and transparent" investigation into whether his country's military was responsible for an air strike on a hospital in Kunduz run by the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), The Guardian reports.
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On Saturday, a spokesman for international forces in Afghanistan acknowledged a strike had been carried out by US forces in Kunduz "against individuals threatening the force".
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The spokesman said that the strike may have resulted in collateral damage to a nearby medical facility.
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In a statement later in the day, President Obama said that the U.S. Department of Defense has launched a full investigation and that they would await the results before making any judgment.
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On Sunday, MSF's general director, Christopher Stokes, called the strike a war crime, and added that "relying only on an internal investigation by a party to the conflict would be wholly insufficient".
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The blast killed 12 staffers and 10 patients, and left the hospital in flames and rubble.
