BOSNIA: SARAJEVO: SERB SNIPERS WOUND 8 PEOPLE

(11 May 1995) Natural Sound

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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