DHAKA: An air strike hit a clinic in a rebel-held district of Aleppo on Friday, the civil defense said, the second time this week a medical facility in Syria’s second city has been hit.

The strike on the Al-Marja neighborhood wounded several people, including at least one nurse, the civil defense, known as the White Helmets, said, reports Al Jazeera.

Local sources said that at least five people had been killed.

The clinic had been providing dental services and treatment for chronic illnesses for about five years.

Al Jazeera’s Andrew Simmons, reporting from the Syria-Turkey border, said that it had been effectively destroyed in the strike.

‘This is a medical centre that deals with chronic illnesses and dental surgery,’ he said. ‘But it is being used, obviously every facility possible is being used, for medical treatment in Aleppo right now.’

The attack came after the Syrian army said in a statement that a ‘regime of calm’ would be enforced in parts of Latakia and Damascus regions from 1:00am local time (22:00 GMT) on April 30.

It will last for 24 hours in the Eastern Ghouta region east of Damascus and in Damascus, and for 72 hours in areas of the northern Latakia countryside, the statement from the Syrian Army General Command said.

It did not mention Aleppo.

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