Warplanes knock out Aleppo hospitals as Russian-backed assault intensifies
Russian or Syrian warplanes knocked two hospitals out of service in the besieged rebel sector of Aleppo on September 28 and ground forces intensified an assault in a battle which the United Nations said had made the city worse than a slaughterhouse.
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Two patients died in one of the hospitals and other shelling killed six residents queuing for bread under a siege that has trapped 250,000 people with food running out.
The week-old assault, which could herald a turning point in the war, has already killed hundreds of people, with bunker-busting bombs bringing down buildings on residents huddled inside.
Only about 30 doctors are believed to be left inside the besieged zone, coping with hundreds of wounded a day.
"The warplane flew over us and directly started dropping its missiles ... at around 4 a.m.," Mohammad Abu Rajab, a radiologist at the M10 hospital, the largest trauma hospital in the city's rebel-held sector, told Reuters.
"Rubble fell in on the patients in the intensive care unit."
M10 hospital workers said oxygen and power generators were destroyed and patients were transferred to another hospital.
