BOSNIA SARAJEVO SERB SNIPERS WOUND 8 PEOPLE

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(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. • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • #Bosnia #Sarajevo #Snipers • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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