7 May 1999.
Early in the morning of the
7. may 1999. NATO launch the heaviest air attack on Nish. At list 5000 people were on
streets or on top of the buildings trying to see results. According to some reports at
list two (tree by some sources) NATO aircraft were destroyed in the air. In the
morning police started a pursuit after a ejected NATO pilots. Results of the pursuit are
unknown. Later that day Nish was bombed once more. This time bombs exploded in populated
areas of the city.
NATO admitted that a cluster
bomb aimed at an airfield in the Yugoslav city of Nis hit a hospital and a market, killing
17 civilians. Local officials said that a further 60 people were injured in the daylight
attack which left unexploded cluster bombs lying in gardens. NATO's Major General Walter
Jertz said: "I can tell you that we did not
target - repeat we did not target - civilian hospitals and we do not target any civilian
targets whatsoever."
People, you can see on the
picture, were responsible for AirDefence of Nish during that night. They are also
responsible for destruction of two NATO aircraft. According to the victory markings on the
vehicle they lunched 5 missiles. They clamed 4 aircraft destroyed during the war. Writing
on the hull of the vehicle "ubica aviona" means "aircraft
killer". There was the other vehicle from the same unit with 4 missiles fired and 2
claims. |
