Airstrike Hits Yemen Doctors Without Borders Hospital, Toll Unknown

Elen Costigan with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) bends to pick up a box containing signed petitions requesting an independent investigation into the October attack on the Doctors Without Bo... Elen Costigan with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) bends to pick up a box containing signed petitions requesting an independent investigation into the October attack on the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, outside the White House in Washington, during an event to mark the delivery to the White House of the petition. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) MORE LESS
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SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Doctors Without Borders says an airstrike has hit a hospital it was operating in northern Yemen, killing and wounding an unknown number of people.

In social media posts, it says the Monday strike hit near the Houthi rebel stronghold of Saada, in the country’s north. Yemeni security and medical officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to brief the media, say the strike killed and wounded some 20 of the hospital’s staff and patients.

The conflict in Yemen pits an internationally-recognized government backed by a Saudi-led coalition against the Shiite rebels, who captured the capital, Sanaa, in September 2014. The Saudi-led coalition has been carrying out airstrikes in Yemen since March 2015.

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  1. Avatar for fitley fitley says:

    Boy they really got Doctors Without Borders on the run now. Well except for the ones killed.

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