A spokeswoman for an international aid agency said Monday that a makeshift clinic supported by Doctors Without Borders has been destroyed by an airstrike in northern Syria.
Mirella Hodeib said her group, also known by its French acronym MSF, had no immediate word on casualties from Monday’s airstrike in the town of Maaret al-Numan in Idlib province.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitor group, nine people including a child were killed in the attack.
The NGO said the hospital was most likely hit by a Russian airstrike.
“A building that housed a hospital supported by MSF was destroyed on Monday by aircraft, presumably Russian,” near Maaret al-Numan, said the British-based monitor.
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The raids also left dozens wounded, said the Observatory, which relies on a network of sources on the ground.
MSF supports around 150 hospitals in Syria.
Syrian troops have been on the offensive in northern Syria under the cover of Russian airstrikes.
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