GENEVA - A relief convoy of ambulances and supplies Monday was turned back by Iraqi authorities or U.S. Marines from entering Fallujah, a spokesman for the international Red Cross said.
Ahmed Rawi, the Baghdad spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, said the Iraqi Red Crescent convoy of four ambulances and four trucks carrying supplies reached Fallujah General Hospital on the outskirts of the city, but was unable to go further.
The Red Crescent and Red Cross have been unable to gain access to people inside Fallujah during more than a week of fighting between U.S. and Iraqi government forces and insurgents.
The hospital itself was well-supplied, because no patients or wounded people have been able to reach it from the embattled city, Rawi said.
"Regretfully, there was no patient in sight," he said.
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