Camerawoman, Correspondent Injured in Sarajevo Sniper Fire

Mortar shells and sniper fire killed at least five people in Sarajevo on Thursday and wounded more than 30, including a camerawoman and a correspondent for Cable News Network.

Midway through a day that residents had described as quiet by the besieged Bosnian capital’s standards, mortar rounds hit a public kitchen and a crowded street in the southwest district of Hrasnica. U.N. sources said five people were killed and about 30 were wounded.

A car carrying CNN correspondent Mark Dulmage and camerawoman Margaret Moth came under sniper fire on a Sarajevo highway flanked by high-rise buildings.

CNN said that Moth, 41, born in New Zealand and now based in Dallas, underwent emergency surgery in a hospital for injuries to the face and neck. Dulmage was slightly injured in the face and arms by glass shards when bullets shattered their car’s windows.

Colleagues said Moth would be flown to Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, as soon as her condition permitted. She would then be flown for further medical treatment either to London or a U.S. air base at the German city of Wiesbaden.

Since the Yugoslav federation began disintegrating a year ago and fighting erupted, at least 28 local and foreign journalists have been killed and dozens wounded in the republics of Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Pilots braving bullets and shrapnel continued to fly into Sarajevo, whose only lifeline to the outside world is an airport only a few hundred yards from one of the worst combat zones.

By early afternoon, 12 flights had disgorged about 100 tons of food and medicine for the city, the United Nations said.