YUGOSLAVIA: SERBIAN AUTHORITIES CLAIM NATO BOMBS KILLED AT LEAST EIGHT CIVILIANS IN THE CENTRE OF PRISTINA

Record ID: 358680

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: SERBIAN AUTHORITIES CLAIM NATO BOMBS KILLED AT LEAST EIGHT CIVILIANS IN THE CENTRE OF PRISTINA
  • Date: 7th April 1999
  • Summary: PRISTINA, YUGOSLAVIA (APRIL 7, 1999) (REUTERS (A)-ACCESS ALL) 1. GV OF POST OFFICE IN THE CENTRE OF PRISTINA BURNING 0.12 2. LV ANOTHER BUILDING BURNING (2 SHOTS) 0.23 3. SLV MAN STANDING AMID THE FLAMES AND RUBBLE APPEALING FOR HELP TO RESCUE A TRAPPED WOMAN, OTHER PEOPLE RUNNING TO HELP 0.43 4. SLV BUILDING BURNING FIERCELY 0.52
  • Embargoed: 22nd April 1999 13:00
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  • Location: PRISTINA, YUGOSLAVIA
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVAD05D5TJ90EC72QU0NZYKLZFXH
  • Story Text: Serbian authorities have claimed NATO bombs killed at
    least eight civilians and injured fifteen on Tuesday night in
    the centre of Pristina.

    The centre of Pristina was rocketed half and hour
    after midnight on Wednesday (April 7) morning.

    The post office caught fire and rockets also hit a
    settlement next to the post office building.

    Several houses were destroyed and several others badly
    damaged by fires which followed rocket explosions.

    The Serb authorities say five members of a Turkish family
    died in the ruins.

    The fire was not put out until much later inthe morning.

    Many surrounding buildings were damaged in downtown
    Pristina as a result of the bombing.

    The Pristina Serb Orthodox cemetery was also burnt.Two
    rockets reportedly hit the cemetery.One of the rockets made a
    big crater, uncovering the bones of Serbs buried long ago, and
    destroying 100 tombstones, according to unconfirmed reports.

    The fuel storage in Devet Jugovica village was also
    bombed and the fire there was still burning late on Wednesday.

    About ten houses near the storage depot were damaged but
    people living nearby escaped injury.

    NATO aeroplanes were repeatedly dropping cluster bombs
    around Pristina on the villages of Lukare, Goles and on the
    Pristina picnic area named Grmija.


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