Saudi-led coalition air strikes on Monday hit a hospital in a rebel-held province of northwestern Yemen and caused casualties, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said.
MSF "confirms that Abs hospital (in Hajja province) was targeted by air strikes today at 15:45 Yemen time (1245 GMT)", the Paris-based relief agency tweeted. "Number of deaths and casualties still unknown."
MSF spokeswoman Malak Shaher confirmed the incident and told AFP the agency has had a team at the public hospital in the coastal town since 2015.
"Medical teams still attending wounded" after the air strikes, MSF tweeted.
Residents in Abs also said that coalition jets, which have been striking rebel military targets in the town for days, hit the hospital and caused casualties.
But AFP could not immediately obtain a specific toll.
The strikes come less than 48 hours after MSF accused the coalition of killing 10 children in air strikes on a Koranic school in Saada, another rebel-held province in Yemen's north.
The coalition denied targeting a school, instead saying it bombed a camp at which Iran-backed rebels train underage soldiers.
The Arab coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, began its campaign of air strikes against Iran-backed Huthi rebels and their allies on March 26, 2015.
Abs is adjacent to the town of Harad, on the border with Saudi Arabia, and from where rebels have repeatedly shelled areas on the kingdom's side of the frontier, causing both civilian and military deaths.
Harad itself is seeing fierce fighting and is frequently a target of heavy coalition air strikes.
Saudi-led coalition air strikes on Monday hit a hospital in a rebel-held province of northwestern Yemen and caused casualties, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said.
MSF “confirms that Abs hospital (in Hajja province) was targeted by air strikes today at 15:45 Yemen time (1245 GMT)”, the Paris-based relief agency tweeted. “Number of deaths and casualties still unknown.”
MSF spokeswoman Malak Shaher confirmed the incident and told AFP the agency has had a team at the public hospital in the coastal town since 2015.
“Medical teams still attending wounded” after the air strikes, MSF tweeted.
Residents in Abs also said that coalition jets, which have been striking rebel military targets in the town for days, hit the hospital and caused casualties.
But AFP could not immediately obtain a specific toll.
The strikes come less than 48 hours after MSF accused the coalition of killing 10 children in air strikes on a Koranic school in Saada, another rebel-held province in Yemen’s north.
The coalition denied targeting a school, instead saying it bombed a camp at which Iran-backed rebels train underage soldiers.
The Arab coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, began its campaign of air strikes against Iran-backed Huthi rebels and their allies on March 26, 2015.
Abs is adjacent to the town of Harad, on the border with Saudi Arabia, and from where rebels have repeatedly shelled areas on the kingdom’s side of the frontier, causing both civilian and military deaths.
Harad itself is seeing fierce fighting and is frequently a target of heavy coalition air strikes.
