ALBANIA: YUGOSLAV MORTAR ROUNDS CONTINUE TO FALL ON THE ALBANIAN SIDE OF THE BORDER WITH KOSOVO DESPITE MASSIVE NATO STRIKE ON YUGOSLAV ARMY POSITIONS

Record ID: 565840

  • Title: ALBANIA: YUGOSLAV MORTAR ROUNDS CONTINUE TO FALL ON THE ALBANIAN SIDE OF THE BORDER WITH KOSOVO DESPITE MASSIVE NATO STRIKE ON YUGOSLAV ARMY POSITIONS
  • Date: 7th June 1999
  • Summary: MORINA, ALBANIA (JUNE 7, 1999)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV BUILDINGS AT BORDER CROSSING IN DISTANCE 0.04 2. LV PUFF OF SMOKE RISING FROM HILL SIDES ON THE ALBANIAN SIDE AS YUGOSLAV MORTAR ROUNDS FALL IN THE AREA 0.09 3. LV ALBANIAN TROOPS PATROLLING 0.16 4. GV HILLSIDE, AUDIO OF MORTAR ROUNDS, PUFF OF SMOKE RISING 0.32 5. GV ANOTHER ROUND EXPLODING ON HILLSIDE (2 SHOTS) 0.53 6. LV VAPOUR FROM OVERFLYING NATO PLANES 1.03 7. LV ALBANIAN TROOPS PATROLLING 1.07 10. LV USAF A-10 TANK BUSTER OVERFLYING BORDER AREA 1.14 11. LV/SLV GROUP OF KOSOVAN MALE REFUGEES CROSSING BORDER (4 SHOTS) 1.41 12. MCU MAN COMFORTING WEEPING REFUGEE 1.49 14. MCU EXHAUSTED MAN SUPPORTED 1.55 15. MCU OLD MAN HELPTED TO WALK 1.59 16. MCU WATER POURED ONTO FACE OF EXHAUSTED MAN 2.09 17. SLV MEDIA/UNHCR BUS AND UNHCR REPRESENTATIVE AT BORDER CROSSING/BUS LEAVING 2.25 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 22nd June 1999 13:00
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  • Location: MORINA, ALBANIA
  • Country: Albania
  • Reuters ID: LVAF1089HRIBAW9EO36O7CQT4RMM
  • Story Text: Yugoslav mortar rounds have continued to fall on the
    Albanian side of the border with Kosovo despite yesterday's
    massive strike by B-52 bombers on suspected Yugoslav army
    artillery and mortar positions.

    Reporters at the scene said the number of mortar
    rounds fired from the Yugoslav side was substantially less
    than Sunday's attacks.

    NATO aircraft also carried out overflights across the
    border area on Monday.A U.S.Air Force A-10 tank-buster flew
    over the Morina border post but did not fire its
    payload.

    As the Yugoslav mortar rounds fell on the Albanian side,
    some 50 male Kosovan refugees walked across the border post
    into Albania.Many looked exhausted and were suffering from
    dehydration in the searing summer heat.

    They were given water by UNHCR staff and then put on buses
    which headed for the town of Kukes.The men said they came
    from the Kosovan town of Metrovica and had been held in a
    prison there by Serb security forces.They said they had been
    interrogated about KLA activities.


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