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Two Russian medical specialists were killed and another injured when militants shelled a mobile military hospital in Aleppo, Russia's Defense Ministry said, while calling on the international community and human rights organizations to condemn the attack.
One Russian medic was killed immediately at the Russian military mobile hospital set up in western Aleppo, and another died later in a hospital after succumbing to her injuries, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The doctors are now fighting for the life of Russian pediatrician, who was also severely injured in the attack.
"Today, between 12:21 and 12:30pm [local time], a medical center of the Russian Defense Ministry's mobile hospital in Aleppo was shelled by the militants during the reception time," ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov told journalists, adding that "as a result of the direct hit of the reception ward, one female Russian military medic was killed [and] two medical specialists were severely injured."
Some local residents attending medical appointments were also injured during the shelling that targeted one of the field hospitals set up in the government held part of the city, the ministry added.
"One [militant] shell hit the reception ward, killing one nurse and severely injuring another one," Vladimir Savchenko, the head of the Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria told journalists, adding that the head of the hospital was also injured.
"The hospital was far from the frontline. Now it's totally destroyed," Savchenko added.
The Russian Defense Ministry attributes the blame for the incident to "terrorists and their patrons in the US, the UK and France."
"It is beyond doubt that the shelling was conducted by the 'opposition' militants. Moscow understands who gave the Syrian militants the coordinates of the Russian hospital right at the moment when it started working," Konashenkov said.
"Full responsibility for the killing and injuring of our medics, who were treating children in Aleppo, lies not only with the actual perpetrators [of this crime], that is with the 'opposition' militants. The blood of our military personnel is on the hands of the people who ordered the hit ... [on the hands] of the terrorists' patrons from the US, the UK, France and other terrorist sympathizers," Konashenkov said.
RT's Lizzie Phelan reports from Aleppo that the city is subject to non-stop shelling by the militants and the hospital that was targeted was overcrowded with injured civilians, including children.
Phelan said "nine mortar shells landed in the area" of the Russian hospital.
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Comment: Proof of who is actually bombing hospitals in Aleppo.