The charity Save the Children says a maternity hospital it supports in an opposition-held area in northern Syria has been bombed, with casualties reported.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, also reported that airstrikes hit a hospital and a centre for first responders in Kafr Takhareem village in a rural part of Idlib province on Friday. The group, which relies on a network of activists in Syria, says the hospital was no longer operational. It says casualties were reported but it had no immediate figures.

Save the Children says the maternity hospital is the only such facility in the area, with the next facility some 70 kilometres away. The hospital opened in 2014 and has an on-call pediatrician and six incubators for premature babies.