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SURDULICA,
April 28th, South East Serbia
Sixteen bodies, including eleven
children aged between 5 and 12,
have been pulled out of the civilian
houses in destroyed by NATO in
Surdulica. Rescue teams have
pulled bodies out of two houses
so far. NATO war planes on
Tuesday fired 15 missiles on
civilian facilities in the centre of the
town of Surdulica. The worst hit
were the Cubrine Livade and
Piskavica suburbs. Surdulica city
council head Miodrag Stoiljkovic
said that he feared that the death
toll is not final because the ruins of
another 18 totally demolished
houses have yet to be searched.
The NATO attack on Surdulica,
which has a population of 15,000,
destroyed 50 apartment buildings
and considerably damaged more
than 500 houses. Eyewitnesses
said that at least 20 members of
the Miric family were in a shelter
in the celler of the totally razed
house of Aleksandar Miric. Many
of the Surdulica inhabitants were
wounded and 20 have been
hospitalized.
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