Two bombs dropped in the compound of the Southern Baptist Mis sion. One bomb struck the roof in the centre of the building. A gaping hole was made and twisted irons in the reinforced concrete were twisted in fantastic shapes and left hanging in mid-air. Brick and mortar crashed down to the floors below. Window: and doors were torn from their hinges. Broken glass covered the floors in every room and hallways. Smashed furniture, equipment and medicines wene scattered everywhere. Two of the patients received serious injuries, but with all the patients which were in the hospital as well as the doctors and nurses, it is a miracle that no others were killed or wounded.
A second bomb fell just outside of he westward. Parts of the wall enclosing the verandah were badly damaged, and the wall round the compound was partly blown away. The small hospital buildings on every side were badly damaged.
The Baptist Mission Bible. School building and the Middle School for boys were both struck. The buildings were very badly damaged and several in the building were either killed or wounded, All round the hospital the light frame buildings were blown to pieces and lay in tangled heaps of wreckaz: on the ground. Here and there among the debris the dead and dying could be seen, while weeping rela tives, their hearts wrung with grief were doing their best te drag the unfortunates to places of safety.
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