4 killed as MSF clinic takes a hit in Yemen
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A 鈥淧ROJECTILE鈥 struck a clinic supported by international medical group Medecins Sans Frontieres in north Yemen yesterday, killing four, MSF said, another in a series of attacks on its facilities in the war-torn country.
MSF said it was not clear who was behind the attack that also wounded 10 other people in Shiara Hospital in the Razeh district, where the group has worked since November last year.
In a statement on its Twitter account, MSF did not identify who was killed in the attack but said that three of the wounded were staff members.
鈥淭his is the third severe incident in the last three months. Our teams struggle on a daily basis to ensure the respect of health facilities,鈥 MSF wrote. An earlier tweet by the group described the projectile as a rocket.
Regional MSF operations chief Raquel Ayora said all warring parties are regularly informed of the GPS coordinates of the medical sites where the group works, and that MSF was in constant dialogue with them.
鈥淭here is no way that anyone with the capacity to carry out an airstrike or launch a rocket would not have known that the Shiara Hospital was a functioning health facility providing critical services and supported by MSF.鈥
MSF said Saudi-led airstrikes hit another of its health facilities elsewhere in the province in October last year, wrecking the building and lightly wounding two staff members.
A military coalition led by Saudi Arabia has been fighting the Iran-allied Houthi group in Yemen, a campaign Riyadh says is aimed at repelling at what it sees as creeping Iranian influence in the Arabian Peninsula.
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