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280 'dismembered' by bombs
03/04/2003 10:44 - (SA)
Baghdad - The International Committee of the Red Cross described as "horrific" on Thursday the scene at a hospital south of Baghdad, where hundreds of Iraqi men, women and children "practically dismembered by explosions" were being treated.
Floran Westphal of the Red Cross said from Geneva, that their workers reported seeing the local 280-bed hospital completely full of casualties of bomb attacks.
A Red Cross doctor at the town of Hilla, 10km south of Baghdad, told CNN about 280 Iraqis had been wounded from bombing and fierce fighting in the previous 48 hours.
He said the hospital was "overwhelmed" by hundreds of casualties, adding that he was "shocked" by what he saw.
An ICRC team - including a doctor and a water engineer - visited Hilla to assess the medical and water situations and saw the carnage.
When the team reached Hilla Hospital, they saw vehicles with corpses of men, women and children arriving. Inside the hospital they saw at least 280 injured people.
The hospital and other medical facilities were having great difficulty facing the emergency, the ICRC said.
10 killed, 90 wounded in Baghdad
They immediately provided dressing materials for 100 patients, as well as intravenous fluid sets, body bags and blankets.
Additional assistance would be delivered as soon as possible, said the ICRC.
About 90 civilians were wounded and 10 killed overnight on Tuesday in the Baghdad area by coalition bombs, said Iraqi officials.
Information minister Mohammed Said al-Sahaf told reporters in a televised briefing from Baghdad on Wednesday that bombing raids over Niniveh left 12 wounded and one dead, while 12 were wounded and one killed in Anbar.
He said 58 civilians were wounded and one killed in Babylon and five others were wounded in Salah Eddin. - Sapa-DPA
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