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Benghazi hospital has 26 dead after attack-TV

(Agencies)
Updated: 2011-03-19 21:02

CAIRO - Al Jazeera reported on Saturday that there were 26 dead and more than 40 wounded in Jala hospital in Benghazi after the eastern Libyan city was bombarded.

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It did not give further details.

Rebels said forces loyal to Muammar Gadhafi bombarded the city on Saturday. The Libyan government has said it was respecting a ceasefire it announced on Friday and said rebels were raiding villages and towns to draw in the West.