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The women who had just given birth were brutally shot dead in a maternity ward in Kabul on Tuesday.
In the hours after the attack, according to the New York Times, the hospital began working to identify the 18 newborns who now have to embark on life without mothers.
Most have yet to be given a name, and it was the names of the deceased mothers who were called in front of the fathers and grandfathers in the plaza in front of the hospital afterward, the newspaper writes.
According to the Afghan authorities, 24 people were killed the attack on the Dasht-e-Barchi hospital on Tuesday. Most were women who had just given birth.
The photo has been published by Doctors Without Borders and shows the newborn ward in the hospital after the attack.
Two women were shot inside the delivery room, writes The Guardian. Another was killed while protecting her baby in an incubator in the nursery.
– I’m still in shock. We are used to seeing dead bodies, but seeing a biological mother who was shot is another matter, says Afghanistan’s deputy health minister Wahid Majrooh, who was in hospital shortly after the attack.
Background: Hospital under attack in Kabul
Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which supports the maternity ward at the hospital, writes in a statement that one of the women at the clinic gave birth during the attack. Both the mother and the child survived.
“Doctors without borders are crushed by yesterday’s cruel attacks on medical personnel, pregnant women and their babies,” they write.
The Guardian writes that two children were also killed in the attack, as well as a midwife and a police officer.
According to the New York Times, women in the maternity ward had no relatives due to the crown pandemic.
So far no one has taken responsibility for the attack, which has been condemned in much of the world.
– Although this is a country at war, there are some rules to follow. Attacking hospitals is not allowed, regardless of which patients are there, Ivar Stokkereit told VG on Wednesday.
He directs the International Criminal Court for the Red Cross.
During his daily press conference on Wednesday, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus observed a minute of silence in memory of the victims.
“I was shocked and horrified when I heard about the attack on an MSF hospital in Afghanistan, where nurses, mothers and babies were killed,” said Tedros.
A nurse cares for babies who lost their mothers in Tuesday’s attack. Photo: Omar Sobhani / REUTERS
