U.N. Peacekeeping Convoy Pulls Out of Bosnia Amid New Battles

Battles between Serb fighters and Muslim-led defenders broke an hours-old truce Saturday, and most U.N. peacekeepers pulled out of the shattered Bosnian capital.

Sarajevo’s Kosevo hospital reported at least seven dead and 84 wounded in the fighting. Chief surgeon Mufid Lazic said the hospital had no water and that it was running out of most medicines, including anesthetics.

In Tuzla, a major industrial center 25 miles to the north, 11 people were killed in overnight battles, the Tanjug news agency reported.

Shelling continued into the evening. Machine-gun fire rattled through deserted streets, and tracer bullets lit the sky in the southwest of the city.

U.S. Ambassador Warren Zimmermann left the Yugoslav and Serbian capital of Belgrade for Washington on Saturday in keeping with a U.S. decision last week to withdraw him to protest Serbia’s role in the violence.

European Community countries and several other nations also ordered their ambassadors home.

The renewed fighting in Bosnia began hours after all sides had agreed on a truce, and it scuttled planned peace talks.