Aid agency Doctors Without Borders condemned a missile strike on one of its clinics on Sunday in northern Yemen, saying it had killed at least four people and wounded 10 others.
Aid agency Doctors Without Borders condemned a missile strike on one of its clinics on Sunday in northern Yemen, saying it had killed at least four people and wounded 10 others.
Three MSF staff members are among the wounded and two are in “critical condition”, the agency said in a statement, adding that the toll could rise as several buildings have collapsed.
“The numbers of casualties could rise as there could still be people trapped in the rubble,” MSF added.
The missile struck the medical facility in the Razeh district of Saada province, the agency said.
All staff and patients were evacuated, with patients being transferred to another MSF-supported hospital in Saada, it said.
MSF could not specify whether the medical facility was hit in an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition or by a rocket fired from the ground.
MSF director of operations Raquel Ayora denounced the missile strike and repeated that the agency constantly shares the coordinates of its medical facilities with warring factions in Yemen.
“All warring parties are regularly informed of the GPS coordinates of the medical sites where MSF works,” said Ms Ayora.
“There is no way that anyone with the capacity to carry out an airstrike or launch a rocket would not have known” that the hospital was a functioning health facility supported by MSF, she added. “We strongly condemn this incident that confirms a worrying pattern of attacks to essential medical services and express our strongest outrage as this will leave a very fragile population without healthcare for weeks.”
Saada is the heartland of the Iran-backed Shia Huthi rebels that the coalition has been bombing since March.
