Word: shrapnel
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Coroner Hypolyte Landry, of the Earl K. Long Hospital where the victims were taken, said yesterday that the slain men were killed either by buckshot or by shrapnel from exploding grenades or bombs...
...necessity, the country's doctors have been concentrating on improving the treatment of war injuries, particularly burns caused by white phosphorus from bombs. Most civilians are trained in basic first aid; Simon saw children of five or six with first-aid kits strapped to their belts. Minor shrapnel and burn cases are cared for at local clinics; serious ones are sent to the large hospitals...
...first to arrive, because they had been the last to board the flight at Rome. In seconds, they opened a suitcase and pulled out Czech-made VZ 58 lightweight submachine guns from which the butts had been removed and half a dozen grenades of a new type whose shrapnel bursts with devastating effect after the initial explosion. Standing spread-legged and back-to-back, they coldly began firing from the hip into the crowd of deplaning passengers and bystanders, sweeping the hall from side to side. When they had emptied their first magazines, they lobbed the grenades at groups...
...hospital, the wounded were packed two to a bed. DeVoss talked with Hoang Thien, a 57-year-old laborer whose wife and daughter were there for treatment of shrapnel wounds from mines planted by the Communists on the shoulders of the roads. "The V.C. didn't want anyone to leave, because once the people go the B-52s come," said Thien. "But a V.C. rocket destroyed my house, so I had no choice. They shot at us so we don't go, but we ran for two days until we hit the mines." For the first time...
...International Rescue Committee, where they spend weeks building up their strength for surgery. From there, they are moved to the 54-bed Barsky Unit for their operations. Doctors at the center perform 150 operations a month, trimming away scar tissue that has immobilized joints, reconstructing faces ruined by shrapnel or napalm, and fitting maimed children with artificial limbs...