Meanwhile, Russia denied its planes had conducted air strikes overnight against the Syrian rebel-held city of Idlib.
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Despite strenuous denials from Moscow, Turkey has called on the global community to rein in what it called Russia’s growing military intervention in Syria.
Russian Federation has angrily denied its planes had conducted air strikes overnight against the Syrian rebel-held city of Idlib, which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said had killed 23 people.
Abdurrazak Jubeiro, a civil defense official in Idlib, told an Agency that the airstrikes hit several targets in the city, including the al-Wataniand Ibn Sina hospital as well as a mosque. The Russian Ministry of Defense denied accusations of culpability.
The Russian aviation has not delivered any airstrikes in the Syrian Idlib province, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said on Tuesday.
Al-Qaida’s Syrian affiliate, the Nusra Front, leads the coalition.
Mr Dughaim, the Observatory and the LCC all reported air strikes on towns and villages near Idlib, in the province that carries the same name.
“Even though Idlib is not covered by the truce, it had been relatively calm with only intermittent raids”, he added. Some struck the area where the national hospital is located, the war monitor said, noting that it did not think the strikes hit the hospital itself.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the raids had been carried out by Russian aircraft.
Amateur videos showed relief workers using torches as they dug through the rubble in the night.
An AFP photographer saw medical staff helping crying children at a nearby clinic.
However, the West has accused Moscow of targeting Western-backed rebel groups rather than so-called Islamic State.
Meanwhile, the American administration said the USA would cooperate with Russian to determine the details about the hospital attack. The UN’s humanitarian chief said on Friday around 592,700 people were living in besieged areas.
“We are going to continue to work closely inside the cessation of hostilities task force, with the Russians to try to figure out what happened here”.
An estimated 130 civilians have died in the shelling since February, he said. “They are terrified, there is nowhere to go”, Marco said.
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Rescue operations by Syria’s Civil Defence services were still underway late on Tuesday.
