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Air strikes on Aleppo hospital kill 20, including children

Published: 28 Apr 2016 - 10:55 am | Last Updated: 14 Nov 2021 - 03:43 pm
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A Syrian boy is comforted as he cries next to the body of a relative who died in a reported airstrike on April 27, 2016 in the rebel-held neighbourhood of al-Soukour in the northern city of Aleppo. AFP / KARAM AL-MASRI

 

BEIRUT: Air strikes overnight on the al-Quds hospital in a rebel-held area of the Syrian city of Aleppo killed 20, including three children and the last paediatrician in the city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday.

The British-based organisation said in the past six days in Aleppo 84 civilians had been killed in government air strikes and 49 civilians were killed in rebel shelling of government-held areas.

REUTERS