BOSNIA: SARAJEVO: SNIPER ALLEY
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One man has been killed and another is in a critical condition after they were shot during a sniper attack at Sarajevo's infamous Sniper Alley.
French troops patrolling the area were unable to spot the snipers to return fire.
The death bring to four, the number killed in recent weeks as Bosnian Serb snipers step up their activities.
45 year old Rifiat Ibrovic was killed instantly as snipers opened fire at Sarajevo's main thoroughfare.
French peacekeepers did not return fire as their visibility was limited by heavy mist which shrouded the Bosnian capital all day.
Serb snipers routinely fire on civilians from positions in burnt out towers blocks 300 metres away across the Miljacka river.
The second victim, a 28 year old man, was rushed to Sarajevo's Kosovo hospital suffering critical wounds to the head and spine.
French peace keepers have been asking the Bosnian municipal authority to restore anti sniper screens which were removed earlier this year after the ceasefire agreement in the city.
So far their requests have fallen on deaf ears despite the shooting of seven civilians in the past two weeks.
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Bosnia: Sarajevo: Serb Snipers Target Civilians - 1995
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Serb snipers targeted civilians in Sarajevo again Saturday, while French U-N troops returned fire.
The French armoured personnel carriers shielded civilians caught up in the shooting on the infamous sniper alley near the Holiday Inn.
No casualties were reported.
Two civilians were killed by snipers Thursday and five people, including a U-N peacekeeper, were hurt Friday. U-N spokesman Colum Murphy said the United Nations does not have words strong enough to condemn such attacks.
Small arms fire and mortar explosions reverberated in Sarajevo overnight. There were no reports of casualties. Firing and detonations were reported in several other Bosnian regions today (Saturday), but U-N officials attributed most to Muslims marking a religious holiday.
The fire fight on sniper alley was brief, lasting only around 15 minutes. Since the city's tram service was stopped following Friday's shootings, there were more civilians than usual walking along the road.
Six French armoured personnel carriers, including one non-armed ambulance, were deployed on the three open crossings on a 200 metres-long stretch before fire-exchange started. During the exchange two more A-P-Cs were called up as reinforcements.
Shots came from at least two locations, most of it over the heads of U-N soldiers and pedestrians, without any obvious impacts or causalities, but two A-P-Cs responded with their mounted guns and at least one French soldier fired from his automatic rifle.
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BOSNIA: SARAJEVO: SNIPER ATTACKS CONTINUE
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Civilians and U.N. peacekeepers in Sarajevo came under fire Thursday in renewed sniper attacks by Serbian forces.
A number of people were wounded in the attack on the town centre. U-N soldiers were fired upon as they drove the injured to hospital.
Its the latest in a week-long spate of sniper attacks on the city which have left up to a dozen injured.
This area of the city centre is known as Sniper Alley and for good reason.
People are always wary crossing here, but Thursday's gunfire made it more dangerous than usual.
Civilians have to cross the street to get to the markets on the other side.
For some the experience of living constantly under fire is desperate. This woman swore at photographers.
No one is safe from the snipers, not even children.
For the old the danger is more acute, and this frail woman was forced to break into a run.
Still the U-N troops go about their daily duty which is to protect the citizens of Sarajevo as best as they can from the sniper fire, using their armoured vehicles as shields.
But several soldiers here have also died or been wounded.
This is what passes for life in Sarajevo ... with no let up in sniper attacks ... and with food becoming scarce ... people are becoming increasingly disillusioned.
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BOSNIA: SARAJEVO: SERB SNIPERS WOUND 8 PEOPLE
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The streets of downtown Sarajevo came under fire again Thursday, just hours after a French U-N soldier was seriously wounded by a sniper.
Pedestrians ducked for cover and cars sped off as sniper fire rang out over the city centre.
Serb snipers wounded eight people in the worst bombardment the city has taken in over a year.
The people of Sarajevo are experiencing some of their worst days since February last year.
Two Serb mortar shells crashed into Sarajevo's old town Thursday morning while the heaviest sniping in weeks cleared people of the downtown sector of Sniper Alley, the city's main east-west thoroughfare.
U-N armored vehicles posted as cover or anti-sniping units at crossroads bisecting Sniper Alley themselves took cover.
Eight civilians have been wounded in the bombardment.
The last time Sarajevo saw this level of violence was in February 1994.
Then a NATO threat of air strikes prompted the Serbs to withdraw heavy guns from around the capital or put them under U-N control.
Dozens of those same heavy weapons are now back in the 20-kilometer (12.5-mile) zone round the city that is supposed to be free of guns.
The Serbs are using them with increasing impunity, encouraged by lack of U-N or NATO retaliation.
The attack has tightened the stranglehold on the besieged city.
Anybody leaving Sarajevo for the rest of the world by car must cross the airstrip, where no aid flights have landed for more than a month.
The surrounding Serbs have threatened to shoot at vehicles crossing the airstrip.
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BOSNIA: SARAJEVO: SNIPER ATTACK
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A 60 year old man and a 15 year old girl have been wounded by sniper fire in Sarajevo: the latest victims targeted by the Serbs in the city's so-called 'Sniper Alley'.
French UN. peacekeepers returned fire but were unable to confirm whether the sniper was hit.
This latest attack comes as the prospect of UN. peacekeepers pulling out of the war zone gathers momentum.
As efforts to find a solution to this war founder, snipers once again opened fire on the people of Sarajevo who were left running for cover.
A 60 year old man and a 15 year old girl were wounded in this latest attack.
They were carrying firewood home in a city where there is no electricity and where temperatures at night are now well below freezing..
The wood was left abandoned on the ground where they fell.
French peacekeepers returned fire but were unable to confirm whether the sniper had been hit.
Anti-sniping units watched the tower blocks 300 meters away from which the Serb snipers shoot at pedestrians.
On maps of the area, French peacekeepers mark the snipers windows.
SOUNDBITE:
My soldiers are professionals. This is a job they do every day without suspicious minds. They do their job. It is not enjoyable to see people wounded every day. But if they were not here I think there would be more people which would be wounded every day. So it seems that they are useful here to protect the population.
SUPER CAPTION: Lt Colonel Philip Reneric, Commander of the anti-sniping unit
Over the summer the people of Sarajevo believed there might be a solution to the conflict but efforts to end the war are in crisis.
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Bosnia - Sniper Alley Danger...Of Speeding Ticket
T/I 10:05:48
SNIPER ALLEY DANGER...OF SPEEDING TICKET
Sarajevo, Bosnia Natsot Duration: 1.00
Sarajevo's traffic police are operating a radar gun to detect
speeding near the Bosnian capital's infamous Sniper Alley. Despite
the fact that sporadic sniping was going on, with a 16-year-old
girl and a 56-year-old man injured by gunmen, a policeman with a
radar gun stood a hundred metres down the road holding a radar gun
and clocking vehicles as they speeded in and out of the danger
zone. Chief of Traffic Police Mirsad Cebo said: The radar control
does not operate on the dangerous part of Sniper Alley. In that
particular area, there are less car accidents because people
cannot walk freely and we are tolerating fast driving in that
zone. Cars travelling faster than 40 kilometres per hour
approaching Sniper Alley or in any other restricted area of
Sarajevo can be fined the equivalent of about $1.40.
SHOWS:
(SARAJEVO, BOSNIA)
Cars speeding down Sniper Alley. Policeman talking on walkie-talkie. Policeman with radar gun clocking United Nations vehicle. Policemen with speeding tickets. Cars being stopped. UN apc on Sniper Alley. Man cycling. Policeman ith radar gun. Man running on Sniper Alley. Police chief Mirsad ebo speaking about speeding (Serbo-Croat), saying that they are ot using the radar gun on the dangerous part of Sniper Alley.
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BOSNIA: SARAJEVO: SHELLING LATEST SITUATION
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Four people - including two children - were killed Tuesday in the worst shelling of Sarajevo in three weeks.
At least 23 people were injured, including six Egyptian UN peacekeepers who had come under attack from Serb mortar shells.
There had already been one shell this morning - many Sarajevans thought that would be it for the day.
But a larger missile and a tank shell struck these housing blocks shortly afterwards.
The damage was largely structural - flames leapt out from some apartments while smoke billowed out of others.
Firefighters were kept busy tackling the smouldering wreckage.
United Nations' inspectors were on hand to see the sites, but there was little they could do.
Rubble lay strewn across the street and only some dared to look onto the scene, rushing back into their homes when sniper shots rang out.
Earlier in the day, four people - including two children - were killed when Bosnian Serb gunners fired a shell into Sarajevo.
The shell landed close to a bridge on the Miljacka river that runs right through the centre of town.
Among Tuesday's casualties were six Egyptian peacekeepers.
A UN spokesman said Bosnian Serbs had shelled the soldiers' observation post (OP) but added no response was possible.
SOUNDBITE:
Around 10 o'clock this morning, the Egyptian OP at (Emiravice?) was hit by 420mm mortar rounds. This resulted in the wounding of six Egyptian soldiers, two of whom were seriously hurt. We have been able to determine that the direction of fire came from the Bosnian Serb side, but we have not been able to ascertain the exact firing point on the ground and, therefore, unable to respond.
SUPER CAPTION: Lieutenant Colonel Chris Vernon, UN Spokesman
One woman had a lucky escape.
This maid was working in a building struck by shellfire and was trapped under rubble.
Once freed from the debris, she was taken to hospital where medics found she had escaped with only minor injuries.
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Bosnia - Civilians Wounded In Sniper Fire
T/I: 10:40:35
A French UN peacekeeper, assigned to the UN Sarajevo
anti-sniping team, and three civilians were wounded on Friday
(3/3) in sniping incidents. In the first attack, a sniper opened
fire on a Sarajevo tram. A UN spokeswoman said the peacekeeper
was only lightly wounded by gunfire that sprayed the passing
vehicle. The shooting occurred in the city centre along a
notorious stretch of road known as sniper alley.
SHOWS:
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA, 03/3
aftermath of the sniper attack
bloodstains on ground
un soldiers by apc's
un soldiers in group
trams in road
more bloodstains and bulletholes
vs interior tram
parked trams
injured treated in hospital
vs doctors and operating theatre
X-ray of leg
more of operation
people running in street
body lying in the street
civilian man goes to collect the body while getting protection
from the UN APC
Red cross truck carrying man round corner
Unloading the man from the Red cross truck
Man getting medical attention in kosovo hospital
3.05 vision
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Bosnia - Attacks On Trams In Sarajevo
(8 Oct 1994) STORY
Bosnian Serbs forces besieging Sarajevo raked three trams with machine gun fire on Saturday (8/10), killing one man and seriously wounding six other people, including children, in an apparent revenge attack.
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BOSNIA: SARAJEVO: UN RE ESTABLISH PATROLS ALONG SNIPER ALLEY
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Bosnian government forces gained ground against the Serbs in central Bosnia, but two Bosnian safe areas, Sarajevo and Tuzla, saw renewed sniping and shelling Sunday.
Two civilians were reported killed by shelling and one injured by sniper fire in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo.
An increase in sniper activity in the Bosnian capital in recent days has led the United Nations to re-establish patrols along Sniper Alley.
The Bosnian Health Ministry reported that two people were killed by shelling and one injured by sniper fire Sunday in the capital.
Another victim of the war in Bosnia was tended by doctors in A Sarajevo's hospital.
The injured included an 11-year-old boy who was hit in the Dobrinja suburb.
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BOSNIA: RENEWED SNIPER FIRE IN SARAJEVO
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The people of Sarajevo were running for their lives again Monday as the city came under renewed sniper fire.
Authorities have erected sniper screens at city intersections , while United Nations peacekeepers are regularly using their armoured vehicles to shield vulnerable civilians.
But there are no guarantees of safety.
Lurking and lethal ... the snipers of Sarajevo inflict indiscriminate terror on the citizens of the besieged Bosnian capital.
Repeated threats from the UN has failed to prevent random shooting at people, who must still leave the relative safety of their homes to get food and water.
And for all the efforts of city authorities and the United Nations, sometimes it's only luck that keeps them alive.
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Bosnia - Speed Check Radar Gun On Sniper Alley
T/I: 10:01:00
The prospect of peace in the Bosnia has had its drawbacks for
motorists in Sarajevo. Traffic police began again on Tuesday
(3/10) trying to catch motorists speeding down the city's
notorious sniper alley. Snipers still remain active within range
of the street, but the police want to stop people racing along it
dangerously. On Tuesday two people were injured by snipers in the
city.
SHOWS:
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA 3/10
police officers holding up radar gun to register speed of
motorists
cars driving down sniper alley
ambulance racing down street
police officer
man on cycle
0.59
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Bosnia - Bonsnian Serb Sarajevo Sniping Continues
Bosnian Serb snipers kept firing at civilians in Sarajevo on
Wednesday (17/8) despite an anti-sniping agreement signed by the
city's warring factions on Sunday. The latest sniping occurred
at 0900 gmt on Wednesday next to the Holiday Inn hotel.
Meanwhile, preparations are being made for the deployment of tactical air control parties (TACP) on Mount Igman outside Sarajevo. 430 French troops -- the largest concentration of UNPROFOR troops anywhere in Bosnia -- have been redeployed in a security zone between Muslim and Serb armies. French Battalion 5 is made up of engineers whose job it is to see that the area is cleared of mines and other explosive devices in advance of the TACP arrival.
In another development, Bosnian Serbs have served notice they will not allow UN peacekeeping convoys to cross their territory from Thursday unless they hand over fuel, UN spokesman Major Rob Annink said on Wednesday.
Talking to reporters in Pale, Bosnian Serb president Radovan
Karadzic said that food and electricity supplies were adequate in
the area but confirmed that fuel was running low.
SHOWS:
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA, 17/8
0.00 anti-sniping unit un apc on street by sarajevo's holiday inn
0.04 civilians walking on street
0.08 ws civilians walking
0.10 gunfire heard
0.14 man runs past camera and people crouching for shelter
MT. IGMAN, 17/8
0.20 U.N. vehicle along track
0.22 interior vehicle (pov shot)
0.24 vehicle climbing up hill to command post
0.26 vs. entrenchments
0.28 vs. of construction site and tents
0.30 soldiers carrying log
0.31 soldier on vehicle looking down on other vehicles
0.33 high shot flags and vehicles and mountains in distance
0.36 soldier and vehicle
0.37 soldier in observation box looking with field glasses
PALE, BOSNIA, 17/8
0.39 mid-shot karadzic talking to reporters
SARAJEVO, 17/8
0.47 journalists at unprofor briefing
0.51 cu maj. rob annink sot BSA headquarters informed bh command
that no convoys for the 18th of August will be approved
unless fuel will be given to bsa checkpoints and forces
along the road
1.07 c/a press
1.10 annink sot i have only one word to say, it's blackmail and
we will not comply
1.15 ws presser
1.17 ENDS
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Bosnia - Sniper Fire In Sarajevo
Serb snipers fired twice on trams in Sarajevo on Wednesday (23/11)
killing one man and wounding three women including the dead man's
wife. The shootings came on a day of increased tension across Bosnia as NATO war planes carried out two air strikes against Serb missile sites. Hospital staff said a 60-year-old man, Kemal Tanovic, was shot dead and his wife wounded. Two younger women were also hurt.
SHOWS:
SARAJEVO 23/11
ws buildings
soldiers by un tank
tram
shots being fired
soldiers taking woman away
red cross vehicle
injured on stretcher
int hospital
injured being treated on stretcher
woman drinking water
body taken away
woman crying
woman being bandaged
int. operating theatre
2.02
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BOSNIA: SARAJEVO: SNIPER FIRE UPDATE
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A French U-N peacekeeper was badly wounded by sniper fire in Sarajevo Thursday as the besieged city came under the worst bombardment for over a year.
The shooting happened as U-N Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali was in Paris to talk with government leaders about the future of the French U.N. peacekeepers in the former Yugoslavia.
France has expressed increasing concern about the high level of
casualties suffered by its troops in Bosnia.
The people of Sarajevo are experiencing some of their worst days since February last year.
Two Serb mortar shells crashed into Sarajevo's old town Thursday morning while the heaviest sniping in weeks cleared people of the downtown sector of Sniper Alley, the city's main east-west thoroughfare.
U-N armored vehicles posted as cover or anti-sniping units at crossroads bisecting Sniper Alley themselves took cover.
Eight civilians have been wounded in the bombardment.
The last time Sarajevo saw this level of violence was in February 1994.
Then a NATO threat of air strikes prompted the Serbs to withdraw heavy guns from around the capital or put them under U-N control.
Dozens of those same heavy weapons are now back in the 20-kilometer (12.5-mile) zone round the city that is supposed to be free of guns.
The Serbs are using them with increasing impunity - encouraged by lack of U-N or NATO retaliation.
Among the victims of today's sniping was a French peacekeeper, who was seriously wounded in the head by a Serb sniper in Sarajevo's notorious Sniper's Alley. He was air lifted out of the city.
The latest shooting follows the deaths of two French peacekeepers in as many months, and the French are threatening to quit Bosnia altogether.
Thirty-six French soldiers have been killed in the former Yugoslavia since the civil war began four years ago.
Today's shooting overshadowed a visit by U-N Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to Paris to discuss the future of the French military commitment in Bosnia.
He first met Foreign Secretary Alain Juppe, the man tipped to be the next prime minister when Jacques Chirac takes over as president.
He is one of several French leaders concerned that the war in the Balkans is worth the lives of their men.
The French, who have the largest contingent of soldiers in the former Yugoslavia, have threatened to pull out unless there is a ceasefire between the warring mainly Bosnian government and Bosnian Serbs.
Boutros-Ghali then met outgoing French President, Francois Mitterrand, who told him France wants to see the mandate for U-N peacekeepers in the former Yugoslavia strengthened.
France is pushing for a change in the mandate that would allow its peacekeepers to respond to provocations.
It is using its threat of pulling its troops out of Bosnia as diplomatic leverage.
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Bosnia - Sniperfires Kill French UN Peacekeeper
(15 Apr 1995) T/I: 10:24:35 DSSE2 10:41:06 DSSO
A French UN peacekeeper in Sarajevo was killed by sniperfire on
Saturday (15/4), just a day after another french soldier was
also slain by a sniper's bullet. Peacekeepers were manouevering
containers to build a screen along an exposed section of sniper
alley when the man, who was driving a bulldozer, was shot.
SHOWS:
15/4 SARAJEVO
centre of city
french UN soldiers putting containers in place
people running across road junctions on sniper alley to avoid
snipers
UN truck manoeuvring
troops take cover behind vehicles
UN soldier lying on ground being tended
bullet hole in vehicle windscreen
body loaded onto stretcher and carried away
ambulance away
2.26 ends
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BOSNIA: SARAJEVO: SNIPER FIRE CLAIMS NEW VICTIMS
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Sniper fire claimed new victims in Sarajevo on Saturday, amid growing fears that the war in Bosnia will escalate again when the four-month truce expires next month.
The UN says two girls aged nine and eleven were hit near the Grbavica stadium.
U-N soldiers were deployed once again in anti-sniping teams to protect the civilians from what's believed to be Serb sniper fire.
Shooting was most intensive in the vicinity of Brotherhood and Unity bridge but it took place at a number of places along sniper alley.
Due to the sniper activity, tram service has been non-existent for the last couple of days in downtown Sarajevo.
Because of that there was an unusually large number of people walking.
Some took cover behind the U-N armoured personnel carriers.
The U-N soldiers arrived after one of the civilians was wounded in the shoulder.
The U-N soldiers did not return fire as they have in the last couple of times when the sniper incidents have occurred.
As a U-N fire brigade officer explained, this time their only aim was protecting civilians.
SOUNDBITE:
Approximately 16:50 hours we received reports of shots fired here at this position. We arrived with our heart-scan and put our ambulance on standby. We received reports of one man injured, shot in the shoulder and transported to the hospital. We have been on the scene there has not been any other victims, but have been quiet a few shots fired.
SUPER CAPTION: U-N Fire Brigade Officer
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Bosnia - Tram Shootout
(3 Aug 1994) While Bosnian Serb leaders contest peace plan proposals, and despite promises by both warring factions to end sniping in Sarajevo, sniper fire wounded three tram passengers on Wednesday in the Bosnian government-held city centre. The shooting forced tram lines to shut down once again and sent civilians scurrying for cover. A team of French U.N. soldiers fired back at a suspected Serb sniping position.
SHOWS:
SARAJEVO, 3/8
0.00 ms people running, un vehicles in background
0.05 cs u.n. soldier with gun, people running in background
0.10 tram passing, passengers taking cover
0.17 bosnian serb leader, radovan karadzic gets out of car,
escorted away
0.28 ws street scene
0.30 newspaper headlines
0.35 un soldiers pushing artillery piece
0.41 un soldiers stand around artillery piece
0.43 ws un vehicles
0.46 ws un armoured personnel carrier and tram
0.50 un apc and pedestrians running, woman leans against wall
1.00 ENDS
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Bosnia - 11 Year-Old Girl Killed In Sniper Fire
An 11-year-old Bosnian girl was killed by Serb sniper fire
Thursday afternoon (11/8) in central Sarajevo.
SHOWS:
SARAJEVO (11/8)
woman running
ws street
two men running
ws street
u.n. soldiers on apc taking aim
pullout from from hillside where sniperfire is believed to have
originated
un soldier near un apc on corner
ws un soldier next to apc
11-year-old girl who was shot put into car
pool of blood in street
mother in grief next to pool of blood
father (who already lost his mother in civil war) screaming
vs of dead girl on stretcher in hospital
child taken out of stroller
people running in street
un soldier looking through gun site
shell lodged in ground of nearby park
2.16 ends
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Bosnia - Snipers Kill Civilian & Wound Others
T/I: 10:51:43
Snipers shot dead one man and wounded two other civilians in
Sarajevo in Monday (6/3), according to city hospital personnel. A
doctor at Kosevo hospital said the a 64-year old man, Ramo Huskic,
died a short time after he was shot in the chest. The two civilians were taken to the hospital in a UN Egyptian armoured personnel carrier.
Later in the day, sniper fire was again reported, this time
outside the Holiday Inn hotel near Serb front lines along the
notorious sniper alley.
SHOWS:
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA, 6/3
Dead man that has been brought to Kosevo Hospital
vs wounded people at Kosevo getting medical attention
civilians and a journalist under fire in Sarajevo suburb of
Sedrenik
tracer bullets being fired
Egyptian APC and the officer in charge
UN Military Observer (UNMO) quickly driving out of the area
Frenchbat 4 anti-sniping unit returning fire on the snipers from
the Holiday Inn
1.37 vision
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