War
Crimes
Air strikes
hit a hospital in a rebel-held area of Syria’s Aleppo and killed at
least 27 people, including three children and the city’s last
paediatrician, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on
Thursday.
A new wave
of aerial bombing on Thursday on rebel-held districts of the city
killed at least 30 more civilians, a rescue worker said. The
Observatory put the toll at least 20.
In
government-held areas, rebel mortar shelling killed at least 14
people, the Britain-based Observatory and Syria’s state news agency
SANA reported.
The bombed
Al Quds hospital was supported by international medical charity
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), which said it was destroyed after
being hit by a direct air strike that killed at least three doctors.
Bebars
Mishal of the Civil Defence in Aleppo told Reuters that 40 people had
been killed in a five-storey building next to the hospital.
More:
Update:
The death
toll at a hospital hit by airstrikes in the northern Syrian city of
Aleppo rose to at least 50 people, including six medics, the French
charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Friday. The al-Quds
hospital, in a rebel-held part of the divided city, was struck
overnight Wednesday-Thursday, Reuters reported.
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