[BBC]

The UN in Sri Lanka says many people - including children - have been killed by shells landing on a hospital in rebel-held territory in the north-east. UN spokesman Gordon Weiss told the BBC the shells had hit a crowded pediatric unit. It is not clear who fired them. Earlier the Red Cross said two people had been killed on a separate strike on the same hospital. It is situated in an enclave held by the Tamil Tiger rebels and home to tens of thousands of civilians.

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[CNN]

Artillery shells slammed into a hospital Sunday in the northern Sri Lankan district of Mullaitivu, where civilians — including a growing number of children — are being treated as government forces and Tamil rebels continue to clash. More than 200 civilians and at least 30 children have been injured in the last three days of fighting, a relief worker told CNN Sunday. “That is the absolute minimum (number of injured),” the aid worker, who did not want to be identified for fear of jeopardizing the work of relief organizations, said.

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