17 February 2016•Update: 18 February 2016
By Kerem Kojalar
GAZIANTEP, Turkey
Eleven bodies were recovered from under the rubble of a hospital funded by medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) that was struck by Russian warplanes in Syria’s northwestern city of Idlib, an MSF spokesperson told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday.
“Rescue operations were still under way to look for survivors,” Serap Ozturk said.
She said 25 staffers were at the hospital when it came under a Russian attack on Monday.
“Three MSF staffers were injured, while fifteen others survived the attack,” she said. “Rescuers have recovered the bodies of five staffers, five patients and an escort.”
The MSF spokeswoman said that she has no information about how many people were inside the hospital during the time of the attack.
“We are afraid that the death toll might rise,” she said.
The MSF said Monday that at least seven people had been killed in the Russian attack on the 30-bed hospital.
