Daylight raids after overnight blitz

NATO aircraft launched daylight raids against Yugoslav targets yesterday, returning after their overnight blitz to strike at …

NATO aircraft launched daylight raids against Yugoslav targets yesterday, returning after their overnight blitz to strike at television and radio relay stations, Yugoslav media reported.

Earlier, Belgrade was hit by more power and water shortages after NATO bombed a major power station serving the city for the fourth night running.

In daylight raids yesterday, a five-year-old boy was injured in a raid on Vucitrn about 20 km north-west of the Kosovo provincial capital, Pristina, Tanjug reported.

Missiles damaged a radio transmission centre in the greater Belgrade area, and another belonging to Belgrade Radio at Zvecka village near Obrenovac at 1 p.m.

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NATO hit Kraljevo in southern Serbia, firing eight missiles at the town and a further five at the village of Jarcujak just to the west, Tanjug said. It reported that three more missiles hit a large petrol depot at Bogutovac which it said had been destroyed in previous raids.

Tanjug said NATO destroyed a Serb Television relay station in Presevo municipality near the Macedonian border.

Serb Radio reported NATO fired more than 10 missiles at the town of Novi Pazar shortly after midday. No casualties were reported but damage was extensive. Local radio in the Belgrade suburb of Pancevo said a barracks had been hit during the attack on Novi Pazar.

The independent Beta news agency reported a detonation in the southern city of Nis and an explosion in the Belgrade suburb of Makis.