One day after British forces claimed control of all of Basra, many new scenes emerged. At one of Basra's main hospitals, there were many Iraqi wounded victims of several weeks of intense warfare. Children, and women and men, lay in hospital beds with many different types of wounds, much from shrapnel, and bombing and shelling, and many of the victims suffered from amputations. In the morgue of the hospital, many bodies of Iraqi fighters lay dead on the floor. Here an elder Iraqi woman is left sitting in a wheelchair in the hallway of the hospital.


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