At least 13 people were killed and several wounded in two separate artillery attacks on the northern Syrian town of Afrin on Saturday, local medical sources said.
The first attack struck a residential area, while the second hit a hospital shortly afterwards, civil defense sources said.
Video footage on social media showed casualties amid the ruins of the Al Shifa hospital.
Turkey's Anadolu agency also put the number of those killed at 13 and said 27 were injured .A local Turkish official said sources at the hospital claimed the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia hit the building with a missile launcher, according to initial reports. The official said Turkish artillery are shelling rural positions near the city of Maarat al-Numan in response.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the U.S.-backed militia force spearheaded by the Kurdish YPG, later said it was not responsible for the attack.