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DAMASCUS, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- Warplanes struck the largest hospital in the rebel-held part of Aleppo city on Monday, completely destroying it, a monitor group reported.
The war jets "directly targeted the hospital," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
It added that three maintenance workers were killed, spelling no details on other casualties or the identity of the warplanes.
The same hospital was struck by airstrike a couple of days ago, with no information on casualties, according to the Observatory.
The situation in Aleppo has dramatically escalated over the past few days, when the Syrian army unleashed a wide-scale offensive to recapture the rebel-held part of Aleppo, following a crumbled truce, blamed by the Syrian government on the U.S. and the rebels it's backing on ground.
Aleppo, Syria's largest province and once the economic hub, has a strategic importance for the warring parties due to its location near the Turkish borders.
