Children Shot Amid Sniper Attack in Libya

[dana_b]

4:12pm UK, Monday August 22, 2011

Alex Crawford, special correspondent, in Tripoli
Two children are among those fighting for their lives in Tripoli's only working hospital after being caught up in violence in Libya's capital.

The hospital has been swamped by casualties over the last few days. And those numbers swelled overnight as the rebels moved into the city and Green Square centre.

An 11-year-old girl has a wound to the head where a sniper bullet entered. And around the corner from her, a three-year-old toddler has been treated for a bullet wound to her stomach. The hospital is stretched beyond belief and it is crumbling under the pressure. There are not enough medics and those that are there are exhausted.

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There are piles of rubbish built-up in every corner after many staff stopped coming to work due to the danger. Blood-soaked bandages are strewn on the floor and on one corner there is a still-full urine bag. The injured are in corridors and their beds piled on top of one another. "Please, please tell the world we need help," one doctor told me.

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[Stuart G]

1. Innocent people always die in war...nt.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. What they need, and I hope it is provided fast

relatively speaking, is a field hospital or two staffed by IRCR personnel. Doctors without borders will follow once it is much safer.