ALEPPO, Syria, April 28 (APP/AFP): At least 20 civilians were killed late Wednesday in regime strikes on a hospital and nearby residential building in the Syrian city of Aleppo, civil defence volunteers known as the White Helmets said.
A dentist and five members of a family, including two children, were among those killed “by airstrikes targeting al Quds Hospital and a nearby residential building in al Sukkari neighbourhood in eastern Aleppo,” the volunteers told AFP.
A doctor who was the only paediatrician in the rebel-held eastern neighbourhoods of Aleppo was also among the dead, an AFP correspondent on the ground said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group confirmed the raids were carried out by “regime airplanes” and said two hospital guards and a doctor were among the dead.
Video footage filmed by AFP showed images of the badly damaged hospital, aid workers transporting the victims in ambulances and a weeping man holding a child.
