Pediatric hospital in Syria bombed, 13 killed

The international medical charity Doctors Without Borders says a hospital it supports, specializing in pediatrics, in a rebel-held northern Syria province has been destroyed by airstrikes that killed 13 people, including five children.

The group, known by its French acronym MSF, says Monday that two of four airstrikes hit the hospital directly and put it out of service. The group says the broad daylight airstrikes Saturday killed four hospital staff, five children, two women and two others. The bombing also destroyed the operating theater, intensive care unit, pediatric department, ambulances and a generator.

“The direct bombing of another hospital in Syria is an outrage,” says Silvia Dallatomasina, medical manager of MSF operations in northwestern Syria.

Hospitals, mostly in rebel-held areas, are regularly attacked. In July alone, 44 attacks were reported.

— AP