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Ossetia remembers lives saved in underground hospital

Published: 09 August, 2009, 18:28


Patient being treated in the basement hospital.
Image from flickr.com/photos/29577903@N02/

As war raged on the streets of the South Ossetian capital, the city's hospital was forced underground. Doctors had to treat hundreds of patients in the building's basement to escape the bombings.

 
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