Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, January 23, 1994 TAG: 9401230051
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA LENGTH: Short
Six children died, hospital and morgue workers said. At least three children suffered serious wounds, and one adult was injured.
Parents frantically got their children off the streets. Although there was no sustained bombardment, the Muslim-led government immediately put the city back on general alert, a warning for people to stay indoors.
In Alipasino Polje, the western Sarajevo neighborhood where the deaths occurred, witnesses said at least four shells exploded around 1 p.m. Scores of children were outside, sledding on snowy hills and skating in the icy streets.
Snow was scarlet with blood or blackened by the explosions. Blood stained a child's sled.
"We were out, we were sliding, when all of a sudden a shell landed," said Muhamed Kapetanovic, 10, in an interview shown on Bosnian television.
"We started running away, and another shell landed between us. Danijel was killed on the spot, and I was wounded in four places," he cried as he lay on a stretcher, his face bandaged.
Hospital officials and witnesses said the bodies were shredded by shrapnel, and at least one was decapitated.
"I've seen hundreds of corpses, but I never saw something like this," said Redzo Grabovica, a worker at the Kosevo Hospital morgue.
Keywords:
FATALITY
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