RUNNING FOR COVER.—Battle-dressed Katangan para-commandos and a civilian, all carrying automatic rifles, run for cover near the Prince Leopold Hospital in EUsabethville during a heavy mortar attack by United Nations troops. Several mortar shells were reported to have hit the hospital. A United Nations spokesman said United Nations troops fired in the direction of the hospital, but were aiming at a military camp about 1000 yards away.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29696, 14 December 1961, Page 15
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67RUNNING FOR COVER.—Battle-dressed Katangan para-commandos and a civilian, all carrying automatic rifles, run for cover near the Prince Leopold Hospital in EUsabethville during a heavy mortar attack by United Nations troops. Several mortar shells were reported to have hit the hospital. A United Nations spokesman said United Nations troops fired in the direction of the hospital, but were aiming at a military camp about 1000 yards away. Press, Volume C, Issue 29696, 14 December 1961, Page 15
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