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Aggressor attacks again
March 29, 1999

Pristina
Pristina
Pristina, March 29 (Tanjug - abridge) - In the barbarian raids of the NATO criminals Monday morning several rockets hit a dental medical center and a police object in the center of the city of Pristina.

Fights are still lasting and the Serbian internal ministry forces resisted heavy attacks of the ethnic Albanian terrorists which started right after the bombardment of the NATO aggressor, says the corespondent of the national agency from Pristina.

Aggressor NATO fired six missiles on the western part of the Kosovo and Metohija capital Pristina at around 2:40 a.m. local time Monday.

Right after NATO struck, ethnic-Albanian terrorists launched a heavy attack from the city's Dragodan and Vranjevac suburbs on the police.

During the attack on Sunday evening which started around 21:00 hours local time, 10 missiles were fired on the south-west parts of the town until 23:00 hours. Rockets were fired from the plane and the target was a hill Veternik, surrounded mostly with the Serbian villages and the Ajvalija suburb where military camp ''Kosovski junaci'' (Heroes from Kosovo) is located. A strong detonation caused the braking of the windows of the hotel ''Grand'' where the Tanjug's corespondent together with the small number of the other reporters is situated.

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Gnjilane, Serbia, March 29 (Tanjug) - An air-raid alert was still on in Kosovo's Morava basin on Monday morning, Tanjug's Gnjilane-based correspondent said.

Aggressor NATO's aircraft attacked the region at around 22.30 p.m. local time on Sunday, firing missiles on the villages of Malisevo, Koretiste, Pasjan and Partes, Gnjilane environs and other localities for more than 30 minutes.

The missiles hit civilian targets, causing great material damages. Three persons were wounded, one woman seriously, in the predominantly ethnic Albanian-populated village of Malisevo and the Cenar Cesma locality.

The aircraft fired over 20 missiles during the attack, while detonations could be heard also from neighboring localities.

Acting in line with civil defense instructions, the region's population has organized life in war conditions.

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Djakovica, Serbia, March 29 (Tanjug) - In an attack launched late Sunday by the fascist soldiery known as NATO, Djakovica, a town in the southwest of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, was hit by two cruise missiles.

The missiles hit the Devet Jugovica army barracks. Luckily, Yugoslav army troops sustained no casualties although considerable material damages were caused.

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Pristina, March 28 - Aggressor NATO Sunday fired ten missiles on southwestern parts of the Kosovo and Metohija capital Pristina by 11;30 p.m. local time. The missiles were fired from aircraft which were targeting Mt. Veternik, south of the capital, whose base is lined mostly by Serbian villages, and also the Pristina suburb Ajvalija, where the Kosovski Junaci military barracks is. The window panes on the Grand Hotel, which houses the Media Centre, were shattered by a strong explosion. The attack subsided somewhat after midnight, but new strikes are expected. Pristina is without electricity, and the only source of light are the rising flames in the city's southwestern part and further on in the direction of Kosovo Polje. According to the Media Centre, the enemy struck also at the Gnjilane area, north of Pristina, i.e., at five Serbian villages. According to first reports, at least three civilians have been wounded.

Belgrade, March 28 - The enemy air force of NATO fired missiles at about 8 a.m. local time Sunday at the regions of the airports in Batajnica and Surcin, and at the place of Jakovo, the City Emergency Center confirmed to Tanjug. Eyewitnesses claim that three very strong detonations were heard near Batajnica airport, two missiles fell near Belgrade's civilian airport at Surcin, and one fell on the place of Jakovo, just west of Belgrade across the Sava River. The blasts were heard distinctly also in the city's core, windows shook in many buildings in Belgrade, whose citizens again left for their shelters, after a very brief respite. Thick smoke was seen billowing from all three targeted areas.

Prizren, March 28 (Tanjug) - Aggressor NATO's aircraft dropped four bombs on the Car Dusan Silni military barracks in Prizren at around 5:10 a.m. local time Sunday. The barracks are in flames. No information is available about possible casualties.

Nis, March 28 (Tanjug) - A missile hit the area of the Nis airport shortly after the alarm, announcing a raid by NATO, was sounded in the city at around 5 p.m. local time Sunday. It was the second NATO air strike on Nis airport. The first attack was on the night of March 25-26. At the moment when NATO struck, a group of Nis residents stood in the city's Liberation Square defying NATO air strikes.

Sombor, March 28 (Tanjug) - The Voivodina town of Sombor was again a target in aggressor NATO's second round of air strikes on Sunday. Two strong explosions were heard only six minutes after the air-raid alarm was sounded at 9:10 p.m. local time. No official reports are available for the time being about possible consequences of the second round of strikes.

Podgorica, March 28 (Tanjug) - In the Sunday attack of NATO planes on targets in Montenegro, between 15:00 and 16:00, missiles and bombs fell in the area of the military airport in Golubovci, near Podgorica, the military base Radovce, also in Podgorica municipality, and Glava Zete, where there are no military facilities. The Montenegrin air raid alert headquarters informed the citizens of Montenegro, over the radio, that also used in the attack were cluster bombs, which comprise a large number of mines with time fuses particularly dangerous for civilians who find themselves in their vicinity.



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