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DAY 2: Muslims slaughter civilians for the camera
Shell Hits Sarajevo Marketplace,
Killing At Least 33
By LIAM McDOWALL
Associated Press Writer,
August 28, 1994
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) _ A shell crashed into a crowd near the central marketplace in Sarajevo today, spewing shrapnel that killed at least 33 people and wounded dozens. The deadly attack jeopardized a new round of peace talks.
Pandemonium broke out and pools of blood were everywhere. Some people had legs and arms blown off.
Bosnian television showed at least 40 people lying in the marketplace, many dead. One old man lay with his head split open, his motorcycle still between his legs. Many of the dead were children, women or old people.
Some bodies fell apart as people tried to pick them up to load them into cars to take them to hospitals. Other cars, bodies hanging out of them, sped off to hospitals, horns blaring.
The Bosnian army said today's carnage was caused by a 120-mm mortar shell fired from Serb positions south of Sarajevo. The Serbs denied the shell was theirs and accused the Muslim-led government army of firing on its own people to scuttle peace talks...
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