THE Saudi-led coalition bombed a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) clinic in Yemen, the charity’s mission head said yesterday.

Hassan Boucenine said that two air raids hit the facility in northern Saada province at about 11pm on Monday.

“It’s completely destroyed,” he said.

The first strike hit the centre’s administration office — unoccupied at the time — sending the 12 staff and patients fleeing from the main building, which was hit about 10 minutes later.

MSF doctor Ali Mughli said several occupants were injured in the attack.

“The air raids resulted in the destruction of the entire hospital with all that was inside — devices and medical supplies — and the moderate wounding of several people,” he said.

The attack on the defenceless medical facility mirrored the deadly US bombing of an MSF hospital near the Afghan city of Kunduz on October 3, in which at least 13 staff and 10 patients were killed.

On Monday it emerged that a senior officer in the US army’s Green Beret special forces unit, which requested the air strike, had reported the hospital was operational the day before the attack.

“MSF report that they have personnel in the trauma centre,” he wrote on October 2.

According to two witnesses, the officer’s report states that the co-ordinates of the hospital were sent to “all friendly forces.”

Also on Monday, UN humanitarian affairs under-secretary General Stephen O’Brien said that Saudi King Salman had pledged £160 million in aid from the charity named after him to Yemen — after his forces had laid waste to it.

Saudi Arabia and its regional allies have been bombing Yemen since April in an attempt to reinstall President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled a rebellion by the Ansar Allah movement, dubbed the Houthis, joined by army units loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Earlier this month Spanish-language media reported that 800 Colombian mercenaries would arrive in the southern port city of Aden at the end of this month, joining troops from Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Sudan.

More than 4,000 people have been killed in the civil war.