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| Sri Lanka war zone hospital 'hit' |
| Sri Lankan government forces have shelled a hospital inside the conflict zone killing at least 45 people, Tamil Tiger rebel and hospital sources say
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| SRI LANKA
, 12-May-2009
3:5:47 AM |
| The rebels said the makeshift hospital in Mullivaikal was hit early in the morning, and people injured in weekend attacks were among the dead.
A government spokesman denied knowledge of the incident, but said the army was not using heavy weapons in the zone.
The claims are impossible to verify as reporters are banned from the area.
More than 400 people were killed and over 1,000 injured over the weekend in what the UN has described as a bloodbath
Many of the casualties from that fighting were taken to the Mullivaikal hospital.
Thurairaja Varatharajah, a health official at the hospital, told the Associated Press news agency it had been hit by a single mortar shell.
More than 50 people were injured, and he expected the death toll to rise because many of the injured had bad head and stomach wounds, he added.
However, military sources have suggested that doctors in the zone may be being forced to give statements at gunpoint by rebels.
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