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DATE: TUESDAY, February 16, 1993                   TAG: 9302160013
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA                                LENGTH: Short


LAST SARAJEVO BAKERY CLOSES FOR LACK OF FUEL

Sarajevo's misery hit a new low Monday as the last operating bakery ran out of fuel to make bread and the capital's 380,000 residents were told to stay indoors because of fierce shelling.

Snow was back on the streets of the embattled city. A natural gas pipeline was cut and electric power was available through only one precarious line.

City leaders refused for a fourth day to distribute U.N. food aid to protest the U.N.'s failure to get supplies to eastern Bosnia, where up to 200,000 Muslims are said to be trapped in pockets of land surrounded by Serbs.

Mortar shells thudded into downtown Sarajevo and shells fired by government forces hit some Serb positions.

Sarajevo's main hospital said three people were killed and 18 wounded Monday.

Bosnian radio reported that many areas of the city and suburbs were shelled and that the western suburb of Dobrinja was still being hit in the evening, with its residents taking shelter in basements.

Alemka Lisinski, a spokeswoman for the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said Bosnian Serbs had refused to let 10 trucks deliver food and medicine to Muslims in the Cerska region.



by Archana Subramaniam by CNB