World News Sri Lanka artillery attacks leave massive carnage

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Artillery shells tore through a hospital packed with wounded civilians in Sri Lanka's war zone May 13 killing at least 50 people, setting an ambulance ablaze and forcing the medical staff to huddle in bunkers for safety, doctors said.

The strike on the hospital came as the government marched on with its offensive to destroy the reeling Tamil Tiger rebels and end their quarter-decade quest for a separate homeland.

Health workers said the most recent wave of attacks across the war zone, which began May 9, had barely let up in five days. The May 10 attacks alone may have killed as many as 1,000 people, doctors said. Volunteers dug mass graves in the marshes of the war zone May 11 as they buried hundreds of civilians killed in artillery attacks that the U.N. characterized as a "bloodbath.'' (AP)

スリランカの砲撃で死者多数

医療関係者によると5月13日、スリランカの病院に砲撃があり、少なくとも50人が亡くなった。

Shukan ST: May 22, 2009

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