N. Vietnam Charge
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HONG KONG, May 22. North Vietnam charged that United States planes attacked a sanatorium and a church with steel-pellet bombs during raids over the denselypopulated areas of Haiphong on Saturday.
The official North Vietnam News Agency said United States planes dropped cluster bombs and fired rockets on the sanatorium and the hospital of An Hai, the Nam Phap hamlet mostly inhabited by Roman Catholics and many houses in Nga Nam. “Steel-pellet bombs wrecked scores of wards at the sanatorium. The walls of many rooms were pockmarked by steel balls projected by the bombs.”
The agency said: “Before raining steel-pellet bombs on the hospital of An Hai, the air pirates fired rockets on the rows of apartments reserved for the patients. The parish church in Nam Phap hamlet also received substantial damage.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31376, 23 May 1967, Page 17
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136N. Vietnam Charge Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31376, 23 May 1967, Page 17
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