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Afghans’ legacy of pain from US air raid

By Guy Smallman in Granai

Published: June 18 2009 22:09 | Last updated: June 18 2009 22:09

By Guy Smallman in Granai

Seven-year-old Noria Barkat lets out another piercing scream. The entire left side of her body is a patchwork of weeping bandages. There is no air conditioning in the suffocating burns unit of the main hospital in Herat, western Afghanistan.

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