Clinic bombed in Aleppo

Clinic bombed in Aleppo

FPJ BureauUpdated: Friday, May 31, 2019, 03:53 PM IST
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TOPSHOT - Syrians evacuate an injured man amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following a reported air strike on the rebel-held neighbourhood of Al-Qatarji, in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on April 29, 2016. Fresh bombardment shook Syria's second city Aleppo, severely damaging a local clinic as outrage grows over an earlier air strike that destroyed a hospital. The northern city has been battered by a week of air strikes, rocket fire, and shelling, leaving more than 200 civilians dead across the metropolis. The renewed violence has all but collapsed a fragile ceasefire deal that had brought an unprecedented lull in fighting since February 27. / AFP PHOTO / AMEER ALHALBI |

Aleppo : An air strike hit a clinic in a rebel-held district of Aleppo today, the civil defence said, the second time this week a medical facility in Syria’s second city has been hit, reports AFP.

   The strike on the Al-Marja neighbourhood wounded several people, including at least one nurse, the civil defence, known as the White Helmets, said.

  The clinic had been providing dental services and treatment for chronic illnesses for about five years.

Earlier this week, 30 people were killed — including two doctors — when air strikes hit the Al-Quds hospital and a nearby block of flats in the rebel-held Sukkari neighbourhood.

The attack on the hospital, which is supported by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has been roundly condemned by world leaders, including US Secretary of State John Kerry who said it appeared to be a “deliberate strike.”

More than 200 civilians have been killed in Aleppo over the past week as rebels have pounded government-held neighbourhoods with rocket and artillery fire and the regime has hit rebel areas with air raids.

On Friday, air strikes on rebel-held districts killed two civilians, one of them a child, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

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