Australian photographer goes inside Afghan hospital destroyed in U.S. airstrike

Andrew Quilty, an Australian photographer based in Afghanistan, shot pictures of the damage inside a Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) hospital in northern Afghanistan.

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.”

Click here to see the full story and more pictures, which some readers may find disturbing, on Foreign Policy’s website.