'Sri Lankan army hits hospital'
Updated on 02 May 2009
Doctors say Sri Lankan army shells a hospital in the safe zone killing scores of civilian patients. Nick Paton Walsh reports.
The Sri Lankan army knows exactly where the no-fire safe zone is, and it knows exactly where the hospital is in that zone.
And yet doctors say the Sri Lankan army shelled that hospital killing nearly a hundred civilians and patients. Their report is confirmed by a diplomatic source.
The official said the Sri Lankan army had killed 64 patients, their relatives and other bystanders today, following the bombing of the makeshift hospital in the northeast of the country, in the tiny so-called safe zone.
It brings the death toll at the hospital to 91 in the last two days.
The hospital is in Mullivaikal, in the south of the coastal strip, still held by separatist Tamil Tigers.
Troops are advancing from the north, but the military hotly denies the attack.
There are some distressing images in this report.
