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Article: U.N. Officials Say U.S. Warplanes Destroyed Military Hospital.
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- October 24, 2001
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By Michael Zielenziger, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 24--ISLAMABAD, Pakistan--United Nations officials confirmed here Tuesday that American warplanes destroyed a military hospital near Herat in western Afghanistan.
Stephanie Bunker, a UN spokeswoman, said relief workers working for the UN 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 UN workers remaining in the city.
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