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Sat 03 Mar 2003'It was a massacre, simply that, a massacre'
The sound of the explosion travelled for more than a kilometre to al-Noor hospital, where the plaintive wails of the ambulances soon announced the arrival of the injured and the dead.
By late evening, the hospital had received 52 corpses, many mangled and charred, said al-Noor's director, Tariq Tahia.
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