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According to relatives, who did not want to reveal their exact location, Massoud was first hit by pellets in the head. Some victims were transported in pickup trucks because of a shortage of ambulances, while others were suffocated en route to treatment while piled beneath the bodies of other wounded people. "During two days of protests, around 2,000 injured people in need of hospitalization sought treatment at just one of the central hospitals in one of the cities, while the hospital had a capacity of 400 beds," he said. "Security forces, meanwhile, were trying to take some of the wounded away while they were still in that condition," he added.
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