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The bombing took place at approximately 13.00 BST today – with two people dying.

Babies were inside the hospital when the bomb struck as incubators crashed to the floor.

One woman who was six months pregnant had her leg severed.

Two other women have shrapnel wounds to the stomach and a number of patients and staff have suffered light injuries.

At the time of the bombing, two operations were underway and a woman was in labour.

Heartbreaking images of dead babies emerged on social media – although these have not yet been verified.

It is not yet known who carried out the attack which came in the form of an airstrike.

Earlier this afternoon an explosive device ripped through the hospital which is managed by Save the Children.

The bombing happened in the Idlib region in the north west of the country, not far from Aleppo.

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Sonia Khush, Syria Director for Save the Children, said: ”Our thoughts are with the brave Syrian staff who run the hospital and the families affected.

"Bombing a maternity hospital which is helping women living under the shadow of war to give birth safely is a shameful act, whether it was done intentionally or because due care was not taken to avoid civilian areas.

“There is no excuse, and unfortunately this is only the latest in a series of strikes on health facilities in Syria. We condemn these attacks, which are illegal under international law, in the strongest possible terms.

"We need an immediate ceasefire across Syria and an end to the appalling bombing of medical facilities”

The Idlib province is currently held by Syrian rebels and has become one of the bloodiest battlegrounds in Syria's civil war.

Idlib was recently bombed by Russian forces operating in the region.

The hospital is the the only maternity facility within a 100km radius with over 340 young Syrians being delivered there in June.

It works with over 1,000 babies and mothers every month.

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Hospitals in the vicinity of Idlib have been massively under pressure since the Assad government bombed four hospitals and a bloodbank in the last few weeks.