Maternity hospital supported by Save the Children in Syria bombed

Syria: A maternity hospital supported by Save the Children located in the rebel controlled area of Kafar Takharim, Idlib province of northwest Syria has been bombed in an air strike on Friday resulting in several casualties and heavy damage, said the Britain-based charity.

In a tweet, it said;

“Save the Children supported maternity hospital in #Idlib bombed, casualties reported — numbers unconfirmed.” 

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights which monitors violence in Syria‘s five-year-old war said the hospital was hit by air strike and seriously damaged adding that a civil defence was also hit.

A spokesman for Save the Children said the number of casualties was yet unknown.

The monitoring group did not state if the strike was carried out by Syrian regime aircraft or warplanes of its Russian allies.

 

The hospital, the biggest in the area, serve over 1300 women and children monthly and delivered about 340 babies last month”, the spokesman said.

“This is the only hospital specialising in maternity and children in the northern western side of rural Idlib.” said the groups email.

The Observatory group said air strikes killed at least five people and severely wounded more than 25 in another part of Idib on Friday.