CCTV captures shocking Syrian hospital explosion killing at least 27
New security vision shows the shocking moment an air strike hit a children's hospital in Aleppo, Syria last Wednesday, killing at least 27 medical staff and patients.
The video shows large explosion ripping through the building and spraying debris over people in the corridors.
The strike has been blamed on the Syrian government and there is now diplomatic pressure to include Aleppo in the multi-country ceasefire.
The air strike was one of five medical centres and two schools bombed in rebel-held Syrian towns last week, where at least 50 civilians were killed.
The carnage occurred as Russian-backed Syrian troops intensified their push toward the rebel stronghold of Aleppo.
Fourteen people were killed in the town of Azaz near the Turkish border when missiles slammed into a school sheltering families fleeing the offensive and a children's hospital, two residents and a medic said on Monday.
Bombs also hit another refugee shelter south of the town and a convoy of trucks, another resident said.
"We have been moving scores of screaming children from the hospital," medic Juma Rahal said.
At least two children were killed and scores of people injured, he said.
Activists posted video online purporting to show the damaged hospital. Three crying babies lay in incubators in a ward littered with broken medical equipment. Reuters could not independently verify the video.
In a separate incident, missiles hit another hospital in the town of Marat Numan in Idlib province, in northwestern Syria, said the French president of the Doctors Without Borders/Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF) charity, which was supporting the hospital.
"There were at least seven deaths among the personnel and the patients, and at least eight MSF personnel have disappeared, and we don't know if they are alive," Mego Terzian told Reuters.
"The author of the strike is clearly ... either the government or Russia," he said, adding that it was not the first time MSF facilities in Syria had been attacked.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks violence across the country, said one male nurse was killed and five female nurses, a doctor and one male nurse are believed to be under the rubble in the MSF hospital.
Also in Marat Numan, another strike hit the National Hospital on the north edge of town, killing two nurses, the Observatory said.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the attacks, which the UN said killed close to 50 civilians, were a blatant violation of international laws.
"These incidents cast a shadow on the commitments made at the ISSG (International Syria Support Group) meeting in Munich on February 11," UN spokesman Farhan Haq said.
The United States also condemned the intensified bombing of northern Syria and said it ran counter to commitments made by world powers in Munich last week to reduce hostilities.
Residents in both towns blamed Russian strikes, saying the planes deployed were more numerous and the munitions more powerful than the Syrian military typically used.
Nearly 30 air strikes have hit rebel-held areas of Aleppo as a temporary "calm" declared by Syria's military took effect around Damascus and in the northwest.
Aleppo has borne the brunt of increased fighting that has all but destroyed a February ceasefire and killed nearly 250 people in the northern city since April 22, a monitoring group said.
It also contributed to the break up of peace talks in Geneva, which the main opposition walked out of last week.
The Syrian army announced a "regime of calm", or lull in fighting, late on Friday, which Damascus said was designed to salvage the wider ceasefire.
