BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA: BOSNIAN SERB SNIPERS ATTACK TRAMS/AID FLIGHTS INTO SARAJEVO ARE SUSPENDED AGAIN AFTER PLANES HIT ON RUNWAY

Record ID: 355347

  • Title: BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA: BOSNIAN SERB SNIPERS ATTACK TRAMS/AID FLIGHTS INTO SARAJEVO ARE SUSPENDED AGAIN AFTER PLANES HIT ON RUNWAY
  • Date: 8th October 1994
  • Summary: SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (OCTOBER 8, 1994) (AGENCY POOL) 1. GV PEOPLE BEING SHOT BY SNIPER (2 SHOTS) 0.32 2. GV VARIOUS OF INJURED BEING CARRIED TO CARS (3 SHOTS) 1.00 3. GV MEDICINS SANS FRONTIERS JEEP ARRIVING AT HOSPITAL 1.05 4. GV INJURED BEING PLACED ON STRETCHER 1.21 5. GV INJURED GIRL TREATED IN HOSPITAL 1.3
  • Embargoed: 23rd October 1994 12:00
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  • Location: SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
  • Reuters ID: LVA13HIG107S81DMI5JV8FF2DGEM
  • Story Text: Bosnian Serbs raked three Sarajevo trams with machinegun fire on Saturday (October 8), killing one man and seriously wounding six other people, including children, in an apparent revenge attack.

    The shooting followed a warning by hardline Bosnian Serb leader Momcilo Krajinsik that his forces would avenge the killing of 20 Serb soldiers and women nurses in a commando raid by the Moslem-led Bosnian army.

    Hospital doctors treated six badly wounded, including two boys aged 14 and 16. Five other children were less seriously hurt.

    U.N. spokesmen said the firing came from Bosnian Serb Army (BSA) positions in Sarajevo's Jewish cemetery.

    United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) commander Lieutenant-General Sir Michael Rose visited the site of the incident with other United Nations officials.

    The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) halted aid flights to Sarajevo on Saturday after two U.N. military planes were hit on the runway on Friday.

    The airport had only reopened the day before after being shut since September 22 by Serb threats to shoot at aircraft in retaliation for a NATO air strike.

    The Serb blockade had severely disrupted UNHCR efforts to keep Sarajevo's 380,000 people supplied with food.

    The airlift supplies 80 percent of the food for the 380,000 besieged residents in the Bosnian capital.

    UNHCR official Kris Janowski told reporters: "We need at least two weeks of full airlift to be able to build up some stocks. We should be flying as many flights a day as possible to make up the lost time." He said bakeries and UNHCR warehouses in Sarajevo had stocks for only a few days.

    "If the airlift continues to be suspended for a week or so then we may run into serious difficulties," Janowksi added. "It is very difficult for us to assess how much food people have in their houses, but UNHCR-wise, the food is running out." UNHCR flights to Sarajevo were to resume on Sunday, a UNHCR spokesman said.


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