A boy wounded in the bombardment of the Belgrade hospital

The detonations inflicted injuries on 16 patients and material damages are huge, he said.

Several missiles hit prefabricated tin hangars located directly alongside the VMA building. Those who ordered this criminal attack knew that the sheds were empty and that they have long been emptied of all hardware or manpower, the general said.

I believe the evil committed by NATO so far is unprecedented in the history of civilization and can be compared only to the rampage of the hordes of Genghis Khan, Gen. Jovicic said.

The attack on the hospital disturbed the patients, he said. There are about 1,000 patients under treatment at present and their health condition has deteriorated. They include more than 200 civilians from all over the country who were victims of previous aggressor attacks, he said.

One of the patients is a 14-year-old boy, wounded in one of many NATO bombardments of Pristina. Doctors have been fighting to save his life for five days now, with slim chances to succeed, Gen. Jovicic said.

The reporters toured the building, and their cameras recorded that several hundred windows and glass surfaces had been broken, metal constructions, blinds. The entrance hall is covered with slithers of glass and metal chips.

"A patient of the intensive care coronary unit, Radisav Milosavljevic, who had been lying by the window, received head injuries. Other patients suffered severe shock and three of them had coronaries for a second time," said Dr. Nenad Ratkovic, the doctor on duty.

At the neurology clinic, reporters toured a room where three gravely ill patients had been lying last night. The most seriously injured patient, Vladimir Debeljakovic, had to undergo repeated surgery after part of the ceiling crashed on his head, causing brain injury with hemorrhage. The general condition of all other patients of this clinic has deteriorated as a result of stress, doctors said.