BALADI NEWS
Air strikes by Syrian regime ally Russia on Sunday forced the closure of two hospitals in the province of Idlib, the Daily Mail cited a war monitor as saying.
It came on a day that more than eight civilians were killed in bombardment by the regime and Russia across the northwestern province, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
Idlib and other adjacent territories of Syria have faced intensifying bombardment in the past month.
On Sunday air strikes hit a hospital in Kafranbel and another located underground on the outskirts of Hass.
The SOHR blamed the on Russia.
"The hospital in Kafranbel is out of order. The patients were transferred to other facilities in the region," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP, adding one civilian was killed.
In Hass, air strikes blamed on Russia halted services at an underground hospital, said Syria Relief and Development, a non-governmental organisation that runs the facility.
"The hospital... is out of order because of the raids," said Ubaida Dandush, who works for the NGO.
The facility had been evacuated shortly before the bombardments, he said, thanks to alerts from a warning system set up to analyse the flight paths of warplanes.
The Observatory said the facility had been put "out of service" because of "bombing by Russian aircraft".
The war monitor says it determines whose planes carried out strikes according to type, location, flight patterns and munitions.
Late last month the United Nations condemned attacks in northwestern Syria that damaged a medical centre and put two hospitals out of service.
Russia and rebel-backer Turkey in September inked a buffer zone deal to prevent a massive regime offensive on the Idlib region, near the Turkish border.
Source: Daily Mail Online.