Four Killed in Strike on MSF Hospital in Yemen

At least four people were killed Sunday in northern Yemen after a missile hit a medical clinic operated by the aid group Doctors Without Borders.

The missile struck the Shiara Hospital in Razeh district of Saada province, according to the aid group's statement.

MSF says 10 people were wounded in the shelling, including three MSF staff members. It adds that the number of casualties could rise as there could still be people trapped in the rubble of the hospital and surrounding buildings.

MSF director of operations Raquel Ayora said, "There is no way that anyone with the capacity to carry out an airstrike or launch a rocket would not have known that the Shiara Hospital was a functioning health facility."

He said, "All warring parties, including the Saudi-led coalition, are regularly informed of the GPS coordinates of the medical sites where MSF works."

MSF says this is the third attack in an MSF health facility in Yemen in recent months.

It says an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition destroyed Haydan hospital in October.

While in December another Saudi-led airstrike struck a health center in Taiz, wounding nine people.

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