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At Least 5 Killed in Bosnian Capital

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<i> Times Wire Services</i>

At least five people were killed by shelling or sniper fire over the weekend in what one U.N. official Sunday called the worst violence in the Bosnian capital since a cease-fire took effect at the beginning of this year.

The city was placed on alert after gunfire struck a plane carrying Yasushi Akashi, the U.N. special envoy for the former Yugoslav federation, and his two top generals as it landed Sunday morning.

The United Nations said a bullet pierced the fuselage of the aircraft and narrowly missed a passenger’s head. The attack was the most serious on senior U.N. peacekeeping officials in nearly three years of war.

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Among those killed over the weekend were two girls shot Saturday in a Serb-held neighborhood. In response, Bosnian Serbs on Sunday closed a route out of Sarajevo that was opened to civilian traffic last month under the terms of the truce, brokered late last year by former President Jimmy Carter.

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