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18 babies die in Homs hospital after electricity cuts
Feb 8, 2012, 7:44 GMT
Beirut - Eighteen premature babies died Wednesday in a hospital in the Syrian province of Homs because of electricity cuts which affected their incubators, an opposition activist told dpa.
'The babies were in al-Walid Hospital in al-Waar neighbourhood near the dissident area of Baba Amr,' the activist said.
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