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Sky News9:04am UK, Friday September 23, 2011
Lisa Holland, foreign affairs correspondent The first of around 50 Libyan patients injured during the uprising in the country has arrived in Britain for medical treatment.
Sky News was introduced to 15-year-old Abdul Malek Elhamdi nearly three weeks ago in a Tripoli hospital.He had been taken in with his friend Wadir after they suffered devastating injuries when a grenade they were playing with blew up.
They had discovered a stash of ammunition after it was abandoned in their school by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's forces, as they fled National Transitional Council fighters.
Wadir died but Abdul survived. He has now been given a chance to get better.
Sky News viewers contacted us offering to help Abdul, and it is their donations which have paid for him to be flown to Britain.
The Libyan government is paying for his treatment here, as well as for treatment for the other patients who will come over.
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