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Explosions dismemberd iraqis { April 3 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=79&art_id=qw1049354281861B262&set_id=1 http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=79&art_id=qw1049354281861B262&set_id=1 Explosions dismembered Iraqis - Red Cross April 03 2003 at 10:31AM The International Committee of the Red Cross described as "horrific" on Thursday the scene at a hospital south of Baghdad, describing hundreds of Iraqi men, women and children "practically dismembered by explosions". Red Cross spokesperson Floran Westphal, speaking from Geneva, said Red Cross workers reported seeing the local 280-bed hospital completely full of suspected casualties of coalition bomb attacks. A Red Cross doctor at the town of Hilla, 10 kilometres south of Baghdad, told CNN about 280 Iraqis had been wounded from bombing and fierce fighting the previous 48 hours. He said the hospital was "overwhelmed" by hundreds of casualties, adding he was "shocked" by what he saw. An ICRC team - including one doctor and one water engineer - visited Hilla to assess the medical and water situation when they found the carnage. When the team reached Hilla surgical hospital, they saw vehicles transporting corpses of men, women and children arriving. Inside the hospital they saw at least 280 people who had sustained injuries. The hospital and other medical facilities were having great difficulties facing the emergency, the ICRC said. It immediately provided dressing materials for 100 war-wounded patients, as well as intravenous fluid sets, body bags and blankets. Additional assistance would be delivered as soon as possible, the ICRC said. About 90 civilians were injured and 10 killed overnight Tuesday in the Baghdad area as coalition bombs continued to fall on the capital, Iraqi officials said. Information Minister Mohammed Said al-Sahaf told reporters in a televised briefing from Baghdad on Wednesday that bombing raids over Niniveh left 12 injured and one dead, while 12 were injured and one killed in Anbar. He said 58 civilians were injured and one killed in Babylon and five others were injured in Salah Eddin. - Sapa-DPA

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