The largest hospital in opposition-held Aleppo has been forced to shut after it was stuck by cluster and barrel bombs yesterday, as fighting in the Syrian city continues.
“Two barrel bombs hit the M10 hospital and there were reports of a cluster bomb as well,” Adham Sahloul of the Syrian American Medical Society (Sams).
At least 400 civilians, including children have been killed in this week’s fighting according to the United Nations, as a ceasefire between warring sides broke down rapidly.
The UN's Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Stephen O'Brien, said he was "deeply alarmed by the ferocious pummelling of eastern Aleppo" and said "the health system is on the verge of total collapse with patients being turned away and no medicines available to treat even the most common ailments."
Russia has been blamed for some of the bombardments on the city.
"It is the continuing savagery of the Assad regime against the people of Aleppo and the complicity of the Russians in committing what are patently war crimes - bombing hospitals, when they know they are hospitals and nothing but hospitals - that is making it impossible for peace negotiations to resume," British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said.
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