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More government bombing raids

[Guinea] Nzerekore Hospital, Forest Region, June 2004. Pierre Holtz/IRIN
Nzerekore hospital lacks medication and facilities needed by AIDS patients
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    Sudanese government planes carried out several bombing raids in the
    Eastern Equatoria region at the weekend, demolishing part of a school and causing people to flee in panic, humanitarian sources said on Monday. The attacks began on Friday in Twic county, when 14 bombs were dropped in
    three raids, hitting the Panlit missionary school. Two classrooms were
    demolished and most of the 700 children at the school fled into the bush in panic or returned to their villages. A spokesman for the Sudan
    Production Aid (SUPRAID) non-governmental organisation, which works in the area, told IRIN the children were slowly trickling back from the bush, but they were too afraid to resume classes. On Saturday, more bombing raids took place near Turalei, causing mass panic. One old lady died of shock, but no other casualties have yet been reported. [For full story, see
    separate IRIN item of 27 November, headlined “Schoolchildren flee
    government bombing raids”]
    http://www.reliefweb.int/IRIN/cea/countrystories/sudan/20001127.phtml

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