Syrian Bombardments Hit Aleppo Hospital, Bakery, Residents Say

A bakery and major hospital were hit in bombardments of rebel-held eastern Aleppo early on Wednesday, residents said, as Syrian government forces pressed their Russian-backed campaign to retake the whole city.

“The warplane flew over us and directly started dropping its missiles on this hospital...at around 4 a.m.,” Mohammad Abu Rajab, a radiologist at the largest trauma hospital in the city’s rebel-held sector, told Reuters. “The rubble fell in on the patients in the intensive care unit.”

The strikes also hit the hospital’s oxygen and power generators, and patients were transferred to another hospital in the area, medical workers at the M10 hospital said.

A bakery in another rebel-held district was hit around 3 a.m., as people lined up to collect bread, residents said.