Intense airstrikes in Syria Aleppo province hit clinics
BEIRUT - Government air raids struck five medical clinics Sunday in the northern province of Aleppo, where violence has intensified in recent weeks, Syrian opposition activists said.
The International Committee of the Red Cross tweeted after reports of the air raids on the provincial capital of Aleppo and the nearby town of Atareb: "Harrowing news: More hospitals hit in #Aleppo this morning. Civilians and hospitals are" not a target.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said four clinics are now out of service in the city of Aleppo as well as a fifth in the town of Atareb just west of the city.
Aleppo-based activist Baraa al-Halaby confirmed that five clinics were hit, adding that an infant was killed in a clinic in the Shaar neighborhood in the early hours of Sunday. He added that a blood bank was struck in Aleppo as well.
