BOSNIA: SARAJEVO: SERB SNIPERS TARGET CIVILIANS

(4 Mar 1995) Natural Sound

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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