Iraq's Falluja Finds Devastation After U.S. Raids [View All]

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - The fiercest U.S. air and artillery bombardment of Falluja in months destroyed a hospital, a medical warehouse and dozens of homes overnight, residents said on Saturday.



Witnesses said U.S. air strikes and shelling lit up the night sky and shook the east and north of the rebel-held city.


A small hospital funded by a Saudi Arabian Islamic charity in the central Nazzal district was reduced to rubble. Only its facade, with a sign reading Nazzal Emergency Hospital, remained intact. Reuters pictures showed blue surgical cloths and empty medicine boxes amid earth and brick ruins.


A nearby compound used by the main Falluja Hospital to store medical supplies was also destroyed, witnesses said.

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