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Article: `Collateral Damage:' View From Ground Zero; Staffers Recount Bombing of Kuwaiti Hospital
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- The Washington Post
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- March 26, 1991
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Lilia Aromin had just finished lunch with her husband and a
niece when she heard aircraft flying low over the hospital where she
worked as a staff nurse. She followed her husband to the window of
their third-floor apartment in the nurses' dormitory to see what was
going on.
A huge bomb blast suddenly shattered the apartment's southern
wall, lacerating the three Filipinos' faces and bodies with shards
of glass and knocking them to the floor. Aromin, 39, suffered damage
to both eyes. Her niece, Marlyn Rompillo, 25, lost her left eye and
was partially blinded in the other. And Aromin's husband, Nicanor
Alzate, 40, sustained gashes in his right arm and a broken clavicle
that has yet to heal.
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