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I heard the shelling and I ran to the well. I saw my son running and then my daughter. Both were wounded. My son was hit in the leg. My daughter was wounded on the head and chest. They were bleeding. My husband was washing clothes near the well and he did not get hit. 65 The mother took her daughter to the nearby Vaharai hospital, where she died. The son went to the Batticaloa hospital, where doctors removed shrapnel from his leg. Human Rights Watch spoke with the father of two girls, age one-and-a-half and six, who lost his wife in the attack. The family fled to the Vaharai area from Mutur, he said, and they had been staying in the Kathiravelli school for about six months: My wife was bathing at the well near my hut. I heard one big boom and saw smoke. Smoke was everywhere and I ran out to look for my wife but I couldn’t find her through the smoke. Then I saw her lying near the well. My younger daughter was also wounded there. Blood was all around. I called her [my wife] but she didn’t speak. 66 A mother of four children explained how her husband died in the attack. The family had come to the Vaharai area from Mutur in July 2006, she said. They stayed in a house about 500 meters from the school. The mother was seven-and-a-half months pregnant when the attack took place. I heard a blast, many blasts. My husband was in the camp to get food. I went there and I saw the dead bodies and the wounded. I waited one hour and then I went in. I heard 15 or 16 blasts in the camp. I saw my husband’s dead body in the camp. There was a room where they gave out rations and he was behind that. I was screaming and crying. I 65 Human Rights Watch interview with Vaharai resident, Valaichchenai, February 26, 2007. 66 Human Rights Watch interview with Mutur resident, Valaichchenai, February 26, 2007. 39 Human Rights Watch August 2007
didn’t take him to the hospital because I saw he was already dead. His body was in pieces but I recognized part of his face. 67 A young girl wounded in the Kathiravelli school attack on November 8, 2006. © 2007 Fred Abrahams/Human Rights Watch 67 Human Rights Watch interview with Mutur resident, Valaichchenai, February 26, 2007. Return to War 40
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didn’t take him <strong>to</strong> the hospital because I saw he was already dead. His<br />
body was in pieces but I recognized part of his face. 67<br />
A young girl wounded in the Kathiravelli school attack on November 8, 2006.<br />
© 2007 Fred Abrahams/<strong>Human</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>Watch</strong><br />
67 <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> interview with Mutur resident, Valaichchenai, February 26, 2007.<br />
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