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Red Cross: 14 Wounded in U.S.-Led Strike

Aired March 20, 2003 - 10:17   ET

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LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: We want to check with Rym Brahimi. She's been trying to get a hard line on exactly what happened last night and how many casualties may have been involved, and as I understand it, Rym, as you join us right now on the phone, coming from the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, you actually have been able to go to the hospital and find out what happened there?
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Leon, I've just returned from Al-Kindi (ph) Hospital. It's one of the main casualty hospitals on east side of the Tigris River. Now I saw three patients there is from this morning as airstrikes, two of them men, one of them a woman. There were another two who only had trivial injuries, and they were discharged very shortly after having been admitted in the hospital, but the three I saw, two of them were injured in the leg. There a brother and sister who were trying to go to a shelter at the time of the bombing, but they were hit before they made it to the shelter. And the other one was a guard who works at a school. He wasn't -- he was making his usual rounds at night and early in the morning. It's a girls school, and he was hit in the forearm.

Now, I understand there are other patients in another hospital...

HARRIS: Rym, I'm sorry to cut you off, because we have some live developments happening right now with Bill Hemmer and his location there in Kuwait City.

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Aired March 20, 2003 - 10:17   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: We want to check with Rym Brahimi. She's been trying to get a hard line on exactly what happened last night and how many casualties may have been involved, and as I understand it, Rym, as you join us right now on the phone, coming from the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, you actually have been able to go to the hospital and find out what happened there?
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Leon, I've just returned from Al-Kindi (ph) Hospital. It's one of the main casualty hospitals on east side of the Tigris River. Now I saw three patients there is from this morning as airstrikes, two of them men, one of them a woman. There were another two who only had trivial injuries, and they were discharged very shortly after having been admitted in the hospital, but the three I saw, two of them were injured in the leg. There a brother and sister who were trying to go to a shelter at the time of the bombing, but they were hit before they made it to the shelter. And the other one was a guard who works at a school. He wasn't -- he was making his usual rounds at night and early in the morning. It's a girls school, and he was hit in the forearm.

Now, I understand there are other patients in another hospital...

HARRIS: Rym, I'm sorry to cut you off, because we have some live developments happening right now with Bill Hemmer and his location there in Kuwait City.

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