Rescue workers in Aleppo ‘out of body bags’ following ‘catastrophic day’ of bombardment
RESCUE workers in Aleppo claim to have run out of body bags following a “catastrophic day” of government bombardment yesterday.
Volunteer group the White Helmets said 38 people, including children, were killed during the onslaught.
The attack also destroyed the Omar Bin Abdul Aziz Hospital, meaning every single hospital in the eastern part of the besieged Syrian city has now been put out of action.
The World Health Organisation said it will be several days before any of the medical facilities are back up and running.
In a video taken during a rescue operation yesterday, one of the rescuers can be heard shouting: “We have no more (body)bags.”
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The fatalities happened in a wave of air strikes, barrel bombs and intense artillery fire.
All hospitals in Syria’s besieged rebel-held eastern Aleppo are out of service after days of heavy air strikes, its health directorate and the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.
“This destruction of infrastructure essential to life leaves the besieged, resolute people, including all children and elderly men and women, without any health facilities offering life-saving treatment … leaving them to die,” said Aleppo’s health directorate.
Elizabeth Hoff, the WHO representative in Syria, said a UN-led group of aid agencies based over the border in Turkey “confirmed today that all hospitals in eastern Aleppo are out of service.”
Medical sources, residents and rebels in eastern Aleppo say hospitals have been damaged by air strikes and helicopter barrel bombs in recent days, including direct hits on the buildings.
Health and rescue workers have previously been able to bring damaged hospitals back into operation but a lack of supplies is making that harder.
Intense air strikes have battered eastern Aleppo since Tuesday when the Syrian army and its allies resumed operations after a pause lasting weeks.
They launched ground attacks against insurgent positions on Friday.
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