Peace Mediator’s Helicopter Escapes Serb Shellfire
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Serb gunners opened fire near a helicopter about to take off with an international peace mediator Friday but the shells fell wide and no casualties or damage were reported.
The envoy, Carl Bildt of the European Union, took off from a town south of Sarajevo for the Croatian port of Split and from there flew on to Belgrade for talks with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.
Bildt’s helicopter was one of two that was targeted in the town of Konjic, 30 miles south of Sarajevo. The second was carrying two injured journalists.
One of the injured journalists was Associated Press photographer Santiago Lyon, wounded in the leg while taking photographs of the U.N. headquarters in Sarajevo which was shelled last Sunday.
The other was Faradoun Hemani, a Worldwide Television News producer injured when Sarajevo’s television building was shelled last week.
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