Daesh Attacks Syrian Hospital, Kills 20, Take Hostages

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يكشنبه 26 ثور 1395 ساعت 10:50 آخرین به روز رسانی در يكشنبه 26 ثور 1395 ساعت 11:05 نوشته شده توسط TOLOnews.com

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Daesh on Saturday overran a govement-controlled hospital in easte Syria, killing 20 members of pro-regime forces and taking medical staff hostage, a monitor said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the jihadists attacked Al-Assad hospital in Deir Ezzor as they press an advance to try to control the oil-rich city and its vital airbase.

The attack sparked clashes with regime forces providing security for the hospital in which six jihadists were also killed, the monitor said.

"IS (Daesh) attacked Al-Assad hospital at the city's weste entrance, killing at least 20 soldiers and allied fighters," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.

Daesh "seized the hospital and captured the medical staff, holding them hostage", he said.

The jihadist group controls about 60 percent of Deir Ezzor, including the center and the north of the city.

It has imposed a siege on govement-held districts in the south and east where about 200,000 civilians have been trapped since March 2014.

Daesh, who also control nearly all the surrounding province, have repeatedly attacked the govement enclave and seized several neighborhoods since the start of this year.

But their efforts to capture the airbase located in the south of the city have been crushed by elite regime troops.

In the northe city of Aleppo, the Observatory said, seven civilians including two children were killed over the previous 48 hours in rebel shelling of govement-held weste sectors.

A ceasefire in the divided city expired on Wednesday at midnight.

The Observatory also reported heavy fighting on the edge of rebel-held Daraya, a town near Damascus under siege by govement forces since 2012 and where the Red Cross was thwarted in an operation to deliver urgent humanitarian aid this week.

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