Bosnia-37 dead,80 injured in bloody market carnage
T/I 10:30:13
STORY: SHELLS
LOCATION: SARAJEVO, BOSNIA
DATE: 28 AUGUST 1995
DURATION: 1.41
37 dead, 80 injured in bloody market carnage
A shell tore into a crowded, open-air market in downtown Sarajevo
on Monday (28/8), killing at least 37 people and wounding 80.
UN spokeswoman Myriam Sochacki said a single 120mm shell caused
the carnage, and that it came from the south, a predominantly Serb
area. The Bosnian government and Bosnian Serbs blamed each other
for the attack. Bosnian Serb Leader Radovan Karadzic said the
Bosnian government massacred its own people to gain an advantage
in the peace process. Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic
called for a postponement of peace talks scheduled to take place
in Paris on Monday. US Assistant Secretary of State Richard
Holbrooke, in Paris to meet with Bosnian President Alija
Izetbegovic, said the attack would not derail the latest US
initiative for peace in the region, but nonetheless the meeting
was postponed for several hours. The Bosnian government said a
series of mortars struck the market place at about 11am local time
as Sarajevans went to buy food. Bodies and body parts were strewn
across the streets. The gutters ran red with blood. Most of the
injured were taken by car to the city's main Kosevo hospital.
Others were treated in local health centers. The shelled Markale
market is the same site that was hit on 5 February, 1994, in an
attack that killed 68 people and wounded hundreds more. The United
Nations and NATO said they were considering airstrikes.
SHOWS:
(SARAJEVO, BOSNIA, 28/8)
Smoke hanging above market. Tracking shot down street. Blood on footpath. Woman on stretcher. Man being treated outside. Pan hospital room. Wounded man being ventilated in hallway. Medical staff and patients in hallway. Pan from wounded man to wounded girl. Nurse wailing because she fears her father is among the casualties. INT morgue.
(PALE, BOSNIA, 28/8)
Radovan Karadzic, Bosnian Serb leader, SOT: So far, whenever we have been on a sort of juncture in the talks, Moslem government has staged a massacre of their own people in order to sabotage the conference.
(SARAJEVO, BOSNIA, 28/8)
Haris Silajdzic, Bosnian Prime Minister, SOT: So they kill more people here in order to extract more concessions.
(PARIS, FRANCE, 28/8)
Richard Holbrooke, US Assistant Secretary of State, up stairs. SOT. This will not stop the peace process, it will only make us redouble our efforts.
(SARAJEVO, BOSNIA, 28/8)
Medical staff work on wounded girl.
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