Saada:- Saudi-led coalition airstrikes have hit a Yemeni hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), the international humanitarian aid organisation said on Tuesday.
An “MSF facility in Saada, Yemen was hit by several airstrikes last night with patients and staff inside the facility,” the group tweeted.
Sadaa is the largest city in Sadaa province, northwestern Yemen.
Meanwhile, Yemens state news agency Saba quoted the Heedan hospital director as saying that several people were injured in Saudi attacks on the hospital which is also located in Saada last night.
The air raids resulted in the destruction of the entire hospital with all that was inside devices and medical supplies and the moderate wounding of several people, Doctor Ali Mughli said.
It was not immediately clear, however, whether the Heedan hospital was the one operated by the MSF and targeted by Saudi warplanes.
The Saudi military has been engaged in heavy strikes against Yemen since late March. The strikes are supposedly meant to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to fugitive former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a staunch Saudi ally.
About 7,000 people have lost their lives in the Saudi airstrikes, and a total of nearly 14,000 people have been injured since March 26.
It is the second time this month that an MSF facility has been hit in a conflict zone.
Earlier, on October 3, an MSF hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz was bombed by US forces, killing about 30 people.
Officials at the humanitarian organization have blamed the United States, calling for independent investigation into the incident, which the US says occurred as a result of a mistake made within the US chain of command.
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