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Wednesday, April 7, 1999 Published at 20:38 GMT 21:38 UK


World: Europe

Serbs take journalists to Pristina


PULL TOGETHER OF PRISTINA, OPS AND KOSOVO WARNING With NATO ready for a third week of air strikes against Yugoslavia, the Serbian authorities have taken foreign journalists to see the impact on the Kosovo capital, Pristina.

They were shown the ruins of its telecommunications centre and, behind, several houses that had been destroyed.

Serbian officials said at least twenty people were killed and many more were missing.

A BBC correspondent who went to Pristina - once home to a quarter of a million people - says it's now largely deserted, with no sign of those said by Serb officials to be in air raid shelters.

NATO says its aircraft have succesfully attacked Serb armoured vehicles inside Kosovo for the first time, but it says that despite continued intensive bombardment, Serb forces show no sign of withdrawing from the province.

Nine senior officers there have been named by the Americans as commanding units committing war crimes.

An American spokesman said it was a warning that the world was watching.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service



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