Fighting Flares in Sarajevo; at Least 2 Die
Muslims accused Serbs of launching attacks in Sarajevo and other parts of the former Yugoslav republic Thursday, a day after Bosnian Serb leaders said they had halted all military operations.
Doctors said two people were killed and nine wounded in government-held parts of Sarajevo; Muslim-run radio accused Serbs besieging the city of sporadic sniper and mortar attacks.
The Belgrade-based news agency Tanjug reported that more than 20 mortar rounds fired by government forces slammed into the Serb-held Sarajevo district of Grbavica in under 30 minutes.
In Croatia, state radio said that rebel Serbs in the republic’s Serb-held Krajina region kept up artillery attacks around the port of Zadar for the second day.
A cease-fire between Croatian forces and ethnic Serbs was supposed to go into effect Thursday, but Croatian Serb Gen. Mile Novakovic did not show up to sign the truce.
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