Air strikes hit MSF-backed hospital in Syria

Russian Defence Ministry images from November 2015 show a Russian fighter plane dropping a cruise missile during an airstrike in Syria. - Russian Defence Ministry/AFP/File

Beirut (AFP) - Suspected Russian air strikes hit a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Syria on Monday, killing nine people including a child, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

"A building that housed a hospital supported by MSF was destroyed on Monday by aircraft, presumably Russian," near Maaret al-Numan in the northern province of Idlib, said the British-based monitor.