Version 1 of Dasht-e Barchi maternity ward attack

On 12 May 2020, armed men attacked the maternity wing run by Médecins Sans Frontières at Dasht-e Barchi hospital in Kabul, a mainly Hazara area. MSF reported 24 people killed, including 16 mothers, one of its midwives and two young boys.¹

MSF's head of programmes said of the attackers: "They came to kill the mothers."¹ Fearing further attacks, MSF made what it called the painful decision to withdraw from the hospital in mid-June.²

Footnotes

1. Médecins Sans Frontières, They came to kill the mothers, 2020. ↩ ↩²

2. Doctors Without Borders Canada, Attack on maternity ward in Dasht-e-Barchi, Afghanistan. ↩