Mortars Kill 8 in Sarajevo; Children Again Among Dead
New mortar attacks on Sarajevo killed eight people, including three children, and wounded about 25 Wednesday, Bosnian Radio said.
About half of those wounded in the Serbian-besieged capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina were children.
The attacks came 24 hours after nine people, including four children and their teacher, were killed by shelling.
The evacuation of Serbs from Sarajevo, set to resume Wednesday, was again held up because Serbian forces still held two bodyguards of the Muslim-led Bosnian government they abducted from a U.N. armored car Monday.
U.N. Protection Force spokesman Maj. Idesbald Van Biesebroeck said U.N. negotiator Viktor Andreev will meet with the Serbs again today to negotiate the bodyguards’ release.
Hundreds of Serbs and Croats left homes, friends and relatives behind in the central Bosnian Muslim town of Travnik on Wednesday and headed across battle lines for Serbian-held Banja Luka.
Some said they were leaving voluntarily while others complained they were being driven out after their apartments were confiscated and their jobs terminated.
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