{Hospital supported by MSF in northwestern Yemen hit by air strike, killing at least 11 and wounding 19, aid group says.}<\/p>\n
At least 11 people have been killed and 19 wounded in an air strike on a hospital in northwestern Yemen, according to the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) aid group, which helps run the facility.<\/p>\n
Monday’s attack on Abs hospital, located in Hajjah province, which is held by Houthi rebels, immediately killed nine people, including an MSF staff member, the Paris-based organisation said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Two other patients died while being transferred to another hospital in Yemen, while five of the patients remained hospitalised, according to MSF. <\/p>\n
MSF said the Arab coalition, which has been conducting air strikes in its battle against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, was responsible for the hit, and asked “all parties … to guarantee that such attacks do not happen again”.<\/p>\n
There was no immediate comment from the coalition.<\/p>\n
Teresa Sancristobal, MSF emergency programme manager for Yemen, said this was the fourth attack against a facility run by the group in less than a year.<\/p>\n
“Once again, today we witness the tragic consequences of the bombing of a hospital,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Once again, a fully functional hospital full of patients and MSF national and international staff members was bombed in a war that has shown no respect for medical facilities or patients.”<\/p>\n
At the time of the strike, there were “23 patients in surgery, 25 in the maternity ward, 13 newborns and 12 in pediatrics”, MSF said.<\/p>\n
The attack on the hospital came two days after an air strike on a school in Haydan, in Yemen’s northwestern Saada province, killed at least 10 children and wounded about 30, according to MSF.<\/p>\n
The victims were aged between aged between eight and 15 years, the group said.<\/p>\n
Yemen has been torn apart by conflict since 2014, when Houthi rebels, allied with ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh loyalists, captured large swaths of the country, including the capital Sanaa.<\/p>\n
The Arab coalition, assembled by Saudi Arabia, launched an air campaign against the rebels in March 2015.<\/p>\n
Since then, more than 9,000 people have been killed and 2.8 million driven from their homes in fighting across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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