- Title: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: NATO MEDICS EVACUATE INJURED SOLDIERS
- Date: 24th January 1996
- Summary: SARAJEVO AND GORAZDE, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (JANUARY 24 AND 25, 1996) (RTV/ RTV (W) - ACCESS ALL) SARAJEVO (RTV - ACCESS ALL) (JANUARY 24, 1996) 1. SV CORDONED-OFF SITE OF EXPLOSION 0.06 2. SV NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION (NATO)-LED IMPLEMENTATION FORCE (IFOR) SOLDIER STANDING GUARD 0.13 3. SV IMPLEMENTATION FORCE (IFOR) EMERGENCY SERVICES TRUCKS DRIVING OUT OF SITE 0.38 SARAJEVO (JANUARY 25) (RTV -- ACCESS ALL) 4. GV SARAJEVO / IFOR ITALIAN ARMY BASE 0.50 5. SCU IFOR INFORMATION OFFICER LIEUTENANT COLONAL SCALAS OF ITALIAN ARMY SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 1.16 6. SV ARMOURED IFOR VEHICLES WITH RED CROSS SIGN 1.36 7. SV SARAJEVO AIRPORT / PLANE ON TARMAC 1.46 8. SV IMPLEMENTATION FORCE (IFOR) SOLDIERS AT PLANE / RED CROSS AMBULANCES APPROACHING PLANE TO UNLOAD WOUNDED 2.04 9. SCU ITALIAN COLONEL SALVATORE JAKONO SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 2.30 10. SV PLANE ON TARMAC AT AIRPORT IN POURING RAIN 2.33 GORADZE (JANUARY 24) (AGENCY POOL - ACCESS ALL) 11. SV NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION (NATO) IMPLEMENTATION FORCE (IFOR) COMMANDER OF GROUND TROOPS IN BOSNIA LIEUTENANT GENERAL WALKER ARRIVING AT GORADZE'S MAYOR'S OFFICE 2.42 12. SV WALKER MEETING MAYOR SMAJO BASCELIJA 2.50 13. SV IFOR TROOPS ACCOMPANY WALKER TO BRIDGE 3.05 14. SV WALKER SAYING MOMENTUM TO IMPLEMENT PEACE MUST COME FROM TOP - POLITICIANS MUST SET THE PACE (ENGLISH) 3.16 15. SV BRIDGE 3.20 SEQUENCE 5 TRANSCRIPT: SCALAS:"AN EXPLOSIVE ORDANANCE THAT WAS TAKEN INSIDE BY SOME PORTUGUESE SOLDIERS EXPLODED AND SO TWO PORTUGUESE SOLDIERS DIED AND ONE ITALIAN SOLDIER DIED AND THEN WE HAD SIX ITALIAN SOLDIERS WOUNDED AND ONE PORTUGUESE SOLDIER WOUNDED" SEQUENCE 9 TRANSCRIPT: JAKONO :""WE ARE GOING TO MEDIVAC SIX WOUNDED TO ITALY, TO ROME TO THE MILITARY HOSPITAL. FIVE ARE LIGHTLY WOUNDED ONE IS BADLY WOUNDED IN ONE ARM AND ONE LEG " Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
- Embargoed: 8th February 1996 12:00
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- Location: SARAJEVO AND GORAZDE, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
- Reuters ID: LVA2KO18HGVVA6WYJ9LOCI2R90TY
- Story Text: NATO-led Implementation Force (IFOR) medics on Thursday (January 25) evacuated six Italian and Portuguese soldiers who had been injured the night before in an accidental explosion at a base in the centre of Sarajevo.
They were taken to Sarajevo airport in armoured ambulances before being loaded onto a military C-130 Hercules transport plane.
The blast occurred on Wednesday (January 24) in a former maternity hospital used by the logistics battalion of the IFOR Italian brigade near Sarajevo's Zetra stadium. It was believed to have occurred when a Portuguese soldier took a fragmentation bomb he had found to his room.
Two Portuguese soldiers and one Italian were killed in the incident. They were NATO's (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) first deaths in Bosnia since the alliance deployed troops last month to enforce the Dayton peace accord.
According to Lieutenant Colonel Salvatore Jakono, of the Italian army, the injured soldiers had sustained varying degrees of shrapnel wounds.
Meanwhile, the commander of NATO ground troops in Bosnia, Lieutenant General Michael Walker, on Wednesday criticised the Bosnian government and Bosnian Serb leadership in Pale for being slow in implementing parts of the accord.
During a trip to the Moslem enclave of Gorazde, Walker said the community was still without electricity and water.
In Gorazde, Walker also met with Gorazde Mayor Smajo Bascelija and visited a bridge hit by NATO rockets.
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