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Seven people have died in an air strike on a Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in northern Syria, the organisation said, calling it a "deliberate" attack.
We have been moving scores of screaming children from the hospital," said medic Juma Rahal. At least two children were killed and scores of people injured, he said.
Activists posted video online purporting to show the damaged hospital. Three crying babies lay in incubators in a ward littered with broken medical equipment. Reuters could not independently verify the video. 'A deliberate attack' In a separate incident, missiles hit another hospital in the town of Marat Numan in Idlib province, in north western Syria, said the French president of the Doctors Without Borders charity — also known by its French acronym MSF — which was supporting the hospital. "There were at least seven deaths among the personnel and the patients, and at least eight MSF personnel have disappeared, and we don't know if they are alive," Mego Terzian told Reuters. "The author of the strike is clearly ... either the government or Russia," he said, adding that it was not the first time MSF facilities in Syria had been attacked.
MSF's mission chief Massimiliano Rebaudengo said the strikes appear to be "a deliberate attack on a health structure." "The destruction of the hospital leaves the local population of around 40,000 people without access to medical services in an active zone of conflict," he said. The aid group said the hospital had 30 beds, 54 staff members, two operating theatres, an outpatients department and an emergency room. MSF has been supporting the hospital since September and covered all its needs, including providing medical supplies and running costs, it said.
MSF said its hospital in Maarat al-Numan was hit by four missiles within minutes of each other. This "leads us to believe that... it wasn't an accidental attack, that it was deliberate," said Sam Taylor, the spokesman for MSF operations in Syria. Mego Terzian, president of MSF France, told Reuters "either the [Syrian] government or Russia" was "clearly" responsible. Monday's attack in Idlib province leaves tens of thousands without medical care, MSF warned.
We have been moving scores of screaming children from the hospital," said medic Juma Rahal. At least two children were killed and scores of people injured, he said.
Activists posted video online purporting to show the damaged hospital. Three crying babies lay in incubators in a ward littered with broken medical equipment. Reuters could not independently verify the video. 'A deliberate attack' In a separate incident, missiles hit another hospital in the town of Marat Numan in Idlib province, in north western Syria, said the French president of the Doctors Without Borders charity — also known by its French acronym MSF — which was supporting the hospital. "There were at least seven deaths among the personnel and the patients, and at least eight MSF personnel have disappeared, and we don't know if they are alive," Mego Terzian told Reuters. "The author of the strike is clearly ... either the government or Russia," he said, adding that it was not the first time MSF facilities in Syria had been attacked.
MSF's mission chief Massimiliano Rebaudengo said the strikes appear to be "a deliberate attack on a health structure." "The destruction of the hospital leaves the local population of around 40,000 people without access to medical services in an active zone of conflict," he said. The aid group said the hospital had 30 beds, 54 staff members, two operating theatres, an outpatients department and an emergency room. MSF has been supporting the hospital since September and covered all its needs, including providing medical supplies and running costs, it said.
MSF said its hospital in Maarat al-Numan was hit by four missiles within minutes of each other. This "leads us to believe that... it wasn't an accidental attack, that it was deliberate," said Sam Taylor, the spokesman for MSF operations in Syria. Mego Terzian, president of MSF France, told Reuters "either the [Syrian] government or Russia" was "clearly" responsible. Monday's attack in Idlib province leaves tens of thousands without medical care, MSF warned.
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