Aid group MSF says structure hit by rockets, at least 8 staff missing

Doctors Without Borders, an international aid group, said that a structure it supported in northwestern Syria was hit on Monday by four rockets, leaving at least eight staff missing.

The aid group, known as MSF, an abbreviation of its name in French, Medecins Sans Frontieres, released a picture on its Twitter account of the building after it was hit.

Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an anti-government activist organization based in London, said at least nine people were killed in the shelling south of the city of Marat al-Numan in the northwestern province of Idlib.

The Observatory, which says it relies on activists on the ground inside Syria for much of its information, said the shelling was the result of Russian airstrikes, a claim that cannot be independently verified.

Russia has been conducting airstrikes on targets inside Syria since last September. Russian officials have repeatedly said they were not targeting civilians, contrary to the claims of the opposition on the ground.

Much of Idlib fell to the rebel group of Jaish al-Fateh, or Conquer Army, late last year. The al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front is a main faction of the Jaish al-Fateh. Enditem