The aggressor aviation hit civilian targets throughout Serbia

Belgrade, 31st May (Tanjug) - One person was killed and several people were injured when the criminal NATO aviation last evening and night bomber mainly civilian targets in the narrow and wider area of Belgrade and Novi Sad, in Kosovo and Metohija, then in Vranje, Nis, Vladicin Han, Aleksinac and Leskovac.

The aggressor NATO aviation during almost half an hour attack shelled the narrow and wider area of Belgrade with a number of missiles at dawn.

One person was killed and several wounded in a NATO raid on the village of Ripanj, situated about 15km south of Belgrade, at 4.15 a.m. local time on Monday, the city's information centre reported. Three houses were flattened to the ground in the raid.

The criminal NATO aviation early this morning at 4:07 a.m. fired four missiles at the structure in Volgina Street in the densely populated part of Zvezdara and injured several persons according to the first available reports.

Numerous apartment buildings between Volgina and Bulevar Revolucije streets were damaged.

NATO planes targeted the thermo-electric power plant and the army barracks in Belgrade's Obrenovac district at dawn on Monday. In the attack which began at 3.45 a.m., the Nikola Tesla A thermo-electric power plant was hit with four missiles, and the barracks, with three, according to the local civil defense commander, Dragan Jovanovic.

Fire fighters are trying to contain the flame at the power plant.

Damage to the power distribution system and to nearby facilities is extensive, and no casualties have been reported, Jovanovic told Radio Obrenovac.

Between 3.50 and 4 a.m., NATO fired five missiles on the Makis district on the way to Obrenovac.

Between 3.48 and 4.08 a.m., several detonations reverberated from the direction of Belgrade's outlying Batajnica suburb.

The NATO aircraft targeted also the Miljakovac woods with few missiles from 03:50 to 04:00 a.m.

The attacks provoked strong air defense fire.

NATO aircraft shelled early Monday for the third time since the outset of the aggression on March 24 power supply facilities at Rimski Sancevi near Novi Sad.

Two strong detonations were heard in the direction of the facilities at 3.50 a.m. local time. According to employees of the local agricultural institute, situated some 2km from the facilities, a thick column of smoke soared into the sky soon after.

Some parts of Novi Sad were left without electricity at the same time. The NATO aircraft raided the facilities again at 4.15 a.m. when two strong detonations were heard in that direction.

The aircraft kept overflying the city until 4.30 a.m. during which time two detonations were heard in the direction of Mount Fruska Gora.

Yugoslav army anti-aircraft batteries strongly responded to the attacks.

Seven persons were wounded when NATO aircraft fired two missiles at the village of Slavujevac near Presevo, in the southeast of Serbia, at 7.45 p.m. local time on Sunday, the district civil defense centre in Vranje reported. The wounded were transferred to the hospital in Vranje having received first treatment aid at a local outpatient clinic. One house was demolished and several damaged in the raid.

Last night between 6:15 and 7:15 p.m. the aggressor NATO aircraft in several roars fired thirty tree missiles of great destructive power on the Southwest part of Vranje, in the area among Donji Neradovci, Soderica and Bunusevac.

Large material damage was caused and one fire broke. So far there is no information about causalities and wounded.

According to the Provincial information centre at about 7:20 p.m. for the fifth time that day, Saz hill, Gnjilane municipality, was shelled with six missiles. All together, 12 missiles were fired at that hill.

The aggressor NATO aviation in ten minutes starting from 7:20 p.m. fired three missiles at the Serbia Radio and Television relay near "Molika" hotel in Brezovica, Strpce municipality.

Pristina vicinity was also targeted at 7:05 p.m. when three missiles were fired at Butovacki breg in the area of Pristina holiday resort "Grmija".

Western Alliance aviation fired four missiles at Djakovica border strip at around 8:50 p.m.

Somewhat after 10:00 p.m. Staro Selo settlement, Urosevac municipality, was targeted with two missiles.

At about 10:30 two missiles were fired at wider area of Prizren. According to the first available information there were no causalities and injured persons in these attacks.

NATO aircraft shelled a convoy of reporters at Krk Bunar, on the Prizren-Brezovica route, at around 4.30 p.m. local time on Sunday, killing Nebojsa Radojevic, a chauffeur, and wounding French philosopher and humanist Daniel Schiffer and reporter of the The Times of London Eve Prentice, the Pristina-based Media Centre reported. The wounded received the necessary treatment at the nearest field hospital.

Half an hour after midnight, the aggressor warplanes hit the electric-power installations "Elektroistok" in the eastern part of Nis, and the complete city is without electric power. Two times, first from the east and then from the north, the enemy fired five destructive missiles, according to Tanjug reporter.

NATO planes shelled the area of Aleksinac at 00:32 p.m. The local civil defense command reports that two missiles fell southeast of the town centre.

NATO aircraft shelled in a series of waves the wider area of Leskovac, southern Serbia, soon after midnight, reports Tanjug. Six powerful missiles rained down on the Arapova Dolina valley at Mount Hisar, located at the town's outskirts. The valley is a popular picnic site.

One missile exploded near the village of Velika Grabovnica, west of Leskovac. According to initial reports, there were no casualties in the attack, while the material damage is being determined.