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May 12 attack: MSF withdraws from Dasht-e-Barchi Maternity Ward

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KABUL (Pajhwok): Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has ended activities and withdrew from Dasht-e-Barchi in Kabul, following the brutal attack of 12 May, according to a statement on Monday.

Sixteen mothers were systematically shot dead alongside a midwife working for the organisation, two children aged 7 and 8 and six other people present at the time of the attack.

The decision comes with the understanding that while no information has emerged about the perpetrators or motive of the assault; mothers, babies and