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Ajdabiyah hospital staff stays put as civilians flee

  • Many medics at hospital working as volunteers

  • A rocket strike killed at least eight rebels on Saturday

By Alexander Dziadosz

AJDABIYAH, Libya, April 17 (Reuters) - Through rocket strikes and street battles, volunteer medics have been keeping Ajdabiyah's main hospital open even as most of the embattled eastern Libyan city has packed up and left.

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