Australian photographer goes inside Afghan hospital destroyed in U.S. airstrike
An Australian photographer captured the heartbreaking devastation inside a Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) hospital in northern Afghanistan on Saturday following a U.S. airstrike.
Andrew Quilty, a photographer based in the country’s capital city of Kabul, told Yahoo News that he waited for the heavy fighting between Taliban and Afghan government forces to come as close to a standstill as possible before entering the Kunduz trauma center.
His images, which were published on Foreign Policy’s website Tuesday, show blackened corpses and bloodied hospital gowns amid blown-out walls and unrecognizable debris.
“Personally, I’m still in disbelief that this even happened,” Quilty said in an email. “We hear a lot about the lengths the U.S. military goes to prevent such catastrophes, but evidently those lengths aren’t enough.”