CROATIA: SERB FORCES SUSPECTED OF SHOOTING DOWN CROATIAN MIG 21 PLANE AS THEY LAUNCH ATTACK ON TOWN.

Record ID: 324532

  • Title: CROATIA: SERB FORCES SUSPECTED OF SHOOTING DOWN CROATIAN MIG 21 PLANE AS THEY LAUNCH ATTACK ON TOWN.
  • Date: 2nd May 1995
  • Summary: NEAR BOSANSKA GRADISKA, CROATIA-BOSNIA BORDER (MAY 2) (RTV ACCESS - ALL) 1. GV/CU PARTS OF THE COCKPIT IN FIELD (7 SHOTS) 0.54 2. GV/SV VARIOUS OF RUINED HOUSES NEAR BOSANSKA GRADISKA/CIVILIANS CLEARING DEBRIS (17 SHOTS) 2.15 3. SV/CU TWO DEAD CHILDREN AMONG RUINS/DAMAGED BUILDINGS/ DEBRIS, RUBBLE/CAR WRECKAGE (8 SHOTS) 2.46 4. SV WOMAN CIVILIAN ADMITTED TO THE LOCAL HEALTH CENTRE PLACED ON STRETCHER, DOCTOR CHECKING BODY SAYING SHE IS DEAD 3.01 5. GV FUNERAL OF A MAN KILLED IN THE ATTACK - MOURNERS GATHERED AROUND GRAVE, WOMEN CRYING (3 SHOTS) 3.15 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 17th May 1995 13:00
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  • Location: NEAR BOSANSKA GRADISKA, CROATIA-BOSNIA BORDER
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  • Country: Croatia
  • Reuters ID: LVAA79H7NYJEKH82ILC8OBK397FM
  • Story Text: The wreckage of a Croatian MiG 21 plane that was downed on Tuesday (May 2) morning was found a few hours later, some five kilometres (three miles) east of Bosanska Gradiska.

    It is suspected Serb forces shot down the plane during an attack on Stara Gradiska bridge over the Sava river.

    The Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said that Croatian artillery shells that fell on Bosanska Gradiska killed an old man and a three-year-old child on Tuesday.


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