(VOVworld) – US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said the US and Afghanistan are conducting an inquiry into the deadly bombing on Saturday of a hospital compound in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz that killed at least 19 people and wounded dozens more.

Injured Doctors Without Borders staff are seen after explosions near their hospital in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015.(photo: Washingtonpost.com)

It remains unclear exactly who bombed the hospital run by Doctors Without Borders and the international medical charity has demanded an investigation into the incident. Doctors Without Borders said that "all indications" pointed to the US-led international military coalition as responsible for the bombing and called for an independent investigation. Mr. Carter did not comment on the bombing.
He said Afghan forces backed by US airstrikes have been battling the Taliban street-by-street in Kunduz since Thursday. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon "strongly" condemned the airstrikes in Kunduz as a war crime which couldn’t be defended.