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Article: U.N. officials confirm U.S. planes destroyed Afghan military hospital.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- October 23, 2001
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan _ United Nations officials confirmed here Tuesday that American warplanes destroyed a military hospital near Herat in western Afghanistan.
Stephanie Bunker, a U.N. spokeswoman, said relief workers working for the United Nations said warplanes had demolished "a military hospital in a military compound" in the Eastern outskirts of the city, but said the number of casualties could not be determined.
"The term they used was destroyed," she said, referring to her conversation with U.N. workers remaining in the city.
The independent report corroborates part of the claim made on Monday by Taliban officials here that U.S. bombers had ...