- Title: YUGOSLAVIA: NATO AIR STRIKES DEVASTATE PRISTINA.
- Date: 8th April 1999
- Summary: PRISTINA, KOSOVO, SERBIA, YUGOSLAVIA APRIL 7, 1999 (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV/GV: (DAYSHOTS) WIDE OF THE PRISTINA STREETS WITH DAMAGED BUILDINGS (3 SHOTS) 0.11 2. LV: SMOKE RISING OVER PRISTINA WITH THE MOSQUE STANDING UNTOUCHED 0.17 3. GV/MV: WIDE OF THE CIVILIAN PART OF PRISTINA BADLY DAMAGED/ DAMAGED HOUSES (4 SHOTS) 0.34 4. MV: A WOMAN HOLDING FLOWERS STANDING NEXT TO THE CAR TOTALLY BURNED DOWN/ DESTROYED GARAGE AND CAR (2 SHOTS) 0.45 5. LV: SERBIAN CEMETERY HIT BY A TOMAHAWK 0.50 6. CU: CLOSE-UP OF A GRAVE STONE 0.54 7. GV: A CROSS IN THE CRATER FORMED BY A BOMB/ DAMAGE (3 SHOTS) 1.09 8. GV: KOSOVO PARLIAMENT BUILDING WITH WINDOWS SMASHED 1.14 9. GV: INSIDE PARLIAMENT, GLASS SCATTERED AROUND 1.17 10. GV/CU: ONE OFFICE TOTALLY DAMAGED (4 SHOTS) 1.37 11. CU: SOUNDBITE (Serbian) ZORAN ANDJELKOVIC, PRESIDENT OF THE TEMPORARY EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF KOSOVO SPEAKING SAYING: "Those who know the best how all this has happened are now laying under the ruins. Those were women and children, Turks, Serbs and Albanians and not soldiers and policemen as NATO is saying." 2.10 12. TRACK: TRACKING SHOT OF BURNING STREETS 2.23 BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA APRIL 8, 1999 (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 13. LV/ZOOM IN: (NIGHTSHOTS) WIDE OF BELGRADE (AUDIO OF NATO JETS)/ BUILDING HIT/ BLACK SMOKE RISES (3 SHOTS) 2.47 14. GV/TV: FIREMAN ARRIVING TO THE SCENE/ POLICE (3 SHOTS0 3.16 15. VARIOUS: DAMAGED BUILDING/ (DAYSHOTS) GLASS SCATTERED AROUND (7 SHOTS) 3.53 16. GV/MV: VARIOUS OF A DESTROYED BUILDING/ VARIOUS OF DAMAGE (6 SHOTS) 4.30 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 23rd April 1999 13:00
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- Location: PRISTINA, KOSOVO, SERBIA, YUGOSLAVIA
- City:
- Country: Yugoslavia
- Reuters ID: LVA944RHC4C63TXEESMYTC9DNEB3
- Story Text: The latest NATO air strikes have devastated parts of
Pristina, captial of Kosovo province, killing at least 10
people, according to local officials.
A group of domestic and foreign correspondents taken
to the city with a Serbian escort for the first time since the
bombing began on March 24 saw heavy damage to the town centre.
They were taken to the main telecommunications building in
central Pristina which was gutted by an overnight cruise
missile strike.Serb officials said at least 10 bodies were
pulled from the rubble.
Heaps of dusty rubble clogged some streets and one central
neighbourhood was largely obliterated -- it was hard to
distinguish the outlines of what had been houses.
Zoran Andjelkovic, the Serbian administrator of Kosovo,
told reporters that the district had a mixed community of
ethnic Albanians, Serbs and Turks and there had been no
military facilities whatsoever in the vicinity.
He said that civilians and Serbian security forces were
working to dig more casualties from the wreckage.
Pristina looked like a ghost town as most people had taken
shelter in case of further NATO air raids.
A building where social security benefits had been
distributed was severely damaged and gravestones in a nearby
Serb cemetery uprooted by the force of explosions.
Small private houses were riddled with gaping holes.
Bigger buildings were badly damaged and their windows
shattered.Local authorities said the wrecked central zones
had been hit twice by NATO projectiles -- at 8:30 p.m.(1830
GMT) on Tuesday and then around midnight.
NATO missiles also exploded in the heart of Belgrade late
on Wednesday for the second time since NATO launched air
strikes against Yugoslavia, blasting a former Yugoslav army
local headquarters.
The missiles had hit a building on the main Nemanjina 7
street, formerly used as a city command by the Yugoslav army.
Three strong explosions rocked central Belgrade shortly before
midnight on Wednesday and jets could be heard flying over the
city.Belgrade's civil defence authorities immediately urged
residents to head for the shelters.
The building hit by NATO missiles is located near the
headquarters of the Serbian government as well as several
ministries.
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