The charity said the attack took place in Abs, in Hajjah province, and that the number of casualties was unknown.
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A border guard corporal became the latest Saudi casualty Monday, the interior ministry said in Riyadh.
Two other patients died while being transferred to another hospital in Yemen, while five of the patients remained hospitalised, according to MSF.
The coalition, which has been targeting the rebels in the impoverished nation since March 2015, have not commented on the strike.
The group added that it had repeatedly shared the location – including Global Positioning System coordinates – of its hospital with all parties to the ongoing conflict.
A Doctors Without Borders (MSF) staffer was among the dead, it said. It blamed the strike on a Saudi-led coalition.
The coalition assessment team has opened an investigation into these reports as a matter of urgency and is seeking additional information, in particular from MSF, the statement said.
Amnesty International said the incident was an “atrocious attack that could amount to a war crime”. “The JIAT will make the results of its investigation public”, it said.
Saudi Arabian media said Saturday that a senior Houthi leader was killed in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition in Saada.
The coalition denied this, saying instead it had bombed a camp at which Iran-backed rebels were training underage soldiers.
U.N. Human Rights Spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told VOA many of these health facilities have been deliberately targeted.
A Reuters witness at the scene of the attack said medics could not immediately evacuate the wounded because war planes continued to fly over the area and first responders feared more bombings.
In January, the MSF-supported Shiara hospital in Razeh, northern Yemen, was hit by a projectile, killing six and injuring seven.
Similarly, in the attack on the facility in Kunduz, MSF reiterated that its coordinates had been provided to the USA coalition and their Afghan counterparts.
In spite of a recent resolution by the United Nations condemning violence against medical facilities, Sancristóval said that nothing had been done by global leaders to protect medical facilities in Yemen.
It said: “This is the fourth attack against an MSF facility in less than 12 months”.
Abs hospital in northwest Yemen, which has been supported by MSF since July 2015, was hit yesterday at 15:45 local time by an airstrike orchestrated by a Saudi-led coalition. The smudge in the middle of the image is caused by dirt on the lens.
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Twenty four people were also injured in the airstrike and were referred to different health facilities in the area, it added. “He calls upon the parties to renew-without delay and in good faith-their engagement with his special envoy for Yemen in pursuit of a negotiated solution”, the statement said.
