- Red Cross tells horror of war
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- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is
reporting high numbers of civilian casualties throughout Iraq.
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- ICRC spokesman in Baghdad Roland Huguenen-Benjamin says
an average of 100 civilian casualties a day are being recorded at hospitals
in the capital.
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- Mr Benjamin says he and his staff have also been shocked
by the numbers of dead and injured in a hospital in the town of Hila, 100
kilometres south of Iraq.
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- "That hospital where we had a chance of travelling
with our own surgeon was utterly overwhelmed by hundreds of civilian casualties
brought in, in just over 48 hours," he said.
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- "And there were lots and lots of dead bodies that
were practically dismembered by the violence of the explosion they had
been subjected to."
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- http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s823972.htm
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