Pentagon to make 'condolence payments' to Kunduz victims

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon announced Saturday it would make payments in compensation for those killed and injured by US airstrikes on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan.

"One step the department can take is to make condolence payments to civilian non-combatants injured and the families of civilian non-combatants killed as a result of US military operations," Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement, adding that US Forces-Afghanistan also has the authority to pay for repairs to the hospital.