Death Toll in US Bombing of Afghan Hospital Rises to 30

The medical charity Doctors Without Borders has raised the death toll to 30 in the October 3 U.S. bombing of a trauma hospital in northern Afghanistan. In a statement Saturday, the medical group, known by its French acronym MSF, attributed the new toll to seven additional unidentified bodies later found in the wreckage of the hospital at Kunduz. In an earlier accounting, MSF said 10 patients and 13 known staff were killed when U.S. fighter jets hit the facility. Authorities said...

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