(3 Jul 1995) T/I: 10:01:40
STORY: SHELLING
LOCATION: SARAJEVO, BOSNIA
DATE: 28 JUNE 1995
DURATION: 1.43"
Foreign news teams take direct hit in TV building
Bosnian Serb rebels besieging Sarajevo on Wednesday (28/6) hit the
Bosnian TV building and a nearby apartment house with makeshift,
self-propelled rocket bombs, killing at least five people and
wounding 40 others, including several foreign journalists. Three
other people were killed in other shelling incidents in Sarajevo.
The Serb attacks appeared to be in retaliation for government
artillery and infantry strikes on two Serb-held suburbs early on
Wednesday. A UN spokeswoman said the Serb warheads were carried by
three or four 128mm projectiles, a "very rudimentary, inaccurate
and indiscriminate weapon." The first projectile slammed into the
second floor of the six-storey TV building, wiping out several
television news organisation offices. One police guard was killed
and 36 people, including several foreign journalists, were
injured. Many were cut by flying glass. The reinforced concrete
building had withstood Serb shelling throughout the conflict.
About one hour after the TV centre was hit, an apartment building
across the street was rocked by a second explosion which killed at
least four people and caused heavy damage.
SHOWS:
(SARAJEVO, BOSNIA 28/6)
Interiors of TV centre building after explosion. Television crew filming. WTN producers leaving scene. SOT "Can you get that car and take us to hospital, please." Television person walking through wreckage. Foreign news office. EXT building with smoke rising. EXT damaged building. Survivor SOT: Q. "What sort of explosion was it?" A. "Loud and destructive. Medics looking through rubble. Injured person taken away. Dead man in back of truck. SOT "I am looking for a stretcher for him. It's on those stairs." Injured people taken from building. WS Sarajevo. Tracking shot along road. Lt. Col Gary Coward, UN spokesman, SOT: "And the fighting as you can hear is still going on. Mortars are being fired from near here...outgoing and we are getting this kind of thing coming into the city." Bosnian PM Haris Silajdzic
in office. Watching TV footage. Silajdzic SOT: "It's obvious that the light for the Serb terrorist is burning greener than ever. They can do what they want to do." WS apartment block that was hit. Damage to apartment block. Dead being taken from rubble.
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