Airstrike on Syrian medical facility kills 5 staff

An airstrike on a medical facility in northern Syria has killed at least five staff members, the medical relief organisation that runs the facility said today.
The Paris-based International Union of Medical Care and Relief Organisations, known by its French initials UOSSM, said the attack last night levelled a medical triage point it operates in rebel-held territory outside the contested city of Aleppo.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said at least 13 people were killed in the attack, including nine militants, some of them belonging to the al-Qaeda-linked Fatah al-Sham Front.
The US office of UOSSM said two nurses and two ambulance drivers were killed and one nurse remained in a critical condition following the attack on the medical facility in Khan Touman. UOSSM said the nurse later died of her injuries.

It said two of its ambulances, which are run by UOSSM and the World Health Organisation, were destroyed and the three-story building collapsed.
"This is a deplorable act against health care workers and medical facilities," said Dr. Khaula Sawah, the head of UOSSM USA.

There were no reports on who was behind the strike.
The medical facility attack follows a Monday night airstrike on a Syrian Arab Red Crescent aid convoy that prompted international condemnation and recrimination over attacks targeting humanitarian facilities and workers.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the convoy strike as a "sickening, savage and apparently deliberate attack." The convoy was carrying aid materials from the UN.