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'Mass Grave': Medics Appeal For Aid At Last Working Hospital In Syria's Sweida

Hospital staff said they were overwhelmed by the number of bodies from the fighting (Credit: AFP)

In the last barely-functional hospital in Sweida, bodies are overflowing from the morgue, staff said, amid violence that has wracked the Druze-majority southern Syrian city for nearly a week.

"It's not a hospital anymore, it's a mass grave," said Rouba, a member of the medical staff at the city's sole government hospital, weeping as she appealed for aid.

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