[SHAFAQ] At least 16 people, including 11 civilians, were killed, on Saturday, in artillery shelling on the Kurdish-held city of Afrin, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
A doctor, three hospital employees, three women and a child, are among the dead.
According to the Observatory, the shelling on al-Shifaa Hospital was carried out from the north of Aleppo governorate, where the Syrian regime forces and Kurdish fighters are deployed.
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Rooters reported that at least 13 people were killed and several maimed in two separate artillery attacks on the northern Syrian town of Afrin on Saturday, local medical sources said.
The first attack struck a residential area, while the second hit a hospital shortly afterwards, civil defiance sources said.
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's Anadolu agency also put the number of those killed at 13 and said 27 were maimed.
A local Ottoman Turkish official told Rooters that sources at the hospital claimed the Syrian Kurdish YPG hit the building with a missile launcher, according to initial reports. The official said Ottoman Turkish artillery are shelling rural positions near the city of Maarat al-Numan in response.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the U.S.-backed forces spearheaded by the Kurdish YPG, later said it was not responsible for the attack.
The governor's office in Turkey's Hatay province, bordering Afrin, said it was investigating the incident and that missiles were fired from the Tel Rifat area controlled by the Syrian government. Rooters remarked.
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