At least 20 people are dead or missing after missile attacks on two hospitals in Syria, including a suspected Russian air strike that destroyed a four-storey makeshift clinic supported by the international aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
At least 14 civilians were killed when missiles hit a children’s hospital, a school and other locations in the rebel-held Syrian town of Azaz near the Turkish border on Monday, a medic and two residents said.
They said at least five missiles hit the hospital in the town centre and a nearby school, where refugees fleeing a major Syrian army offensive were sheltering.
Tens of thousands of people have fled the town, the last rebel stronghold before the border with Turkey, where there is heavy fighting between the Syrian army and militias.
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“We have been moving scores of screaming children from the hospital,” said medic Juma Rahal. At least two children were killed and ambulances ferried scores of injured people to Turkey for treatment, he said.