>May 31 12:58 PM ET
>NATO Hits Serbia Sanatorium, 10 Said Killed
>By Slobodan Spanic
>BELGRADE (Reuters) - At least 10 people died when NATO warplanes bombarded
>a sanatorium in southeastern Serbia Monday, state media said.
>Another person was killed when her house in a village just outside Belgrade
>was flattened, bringing the reported civilian up its daylight raids on
>Yugoslavia.
>Two missiles hit an old people's home in the grounds of the sanatorium in
>Surdulica and a pavilion where refugees were housed, state radio said.
>In Ripanj, a village below Mount Avala south of Belgrade where a huge
>transmitter has been crippled in previous strikes, Slavica Kostic lay dead,
>surrounded by the rubble of her house.
>Her small cat, blood dripping from its ears, crouched near her body,
>refusing to move. Her son Ljuba was wounded in the attack, which destroyed
>several surrounding houses.
>In Zvezdara, a densely populated suburb in eastern Belgrade, Studio B
>television quoted city authorities as saying three people were wounded in
>an attack.
>A woman standing outside her house spoke on the telephone, its cord
>stretched through a hole where her window had been.
>The latest devastation followed an attack on a bridge in Varvarin, southern
>Serbia, Sunday afternoon that killed nine people and wounded at least 17.
>In Surdulica, civil defense officials said they feared the death toll could
>go higher as they searched through debris from the sanatorium attack, which
>occurred just after midnight (2200 GMT), the radio reported.
>It was the second time the sanatorium had been hit in the NATO air strikes
>which began on March 24, the radio said.
>Surdulica, about 75 km (50 miles) southeast of Nis and near the highway
>linking Nis and the Macedonian capital Skopje, was the scene of one of
>NATO's previous high-profile blunders.
>On April 27, 20 people, mainly women and children, were killed during an
>air strike on an army barracks in the town. NATO admitted that a
>laser-guided bomb went astray and hit a residential area, destroying scores
>of homes.
>Sunday, NATO launched a daylight attack on a bridge over the Velika Morava
>River in Varvarin, 150 km (90 miles) south of Belgrade. It was cut in half
>by the explosions and pieces lay semi-submerged in the river.
>``Two missiles hit first, people rushed to help those trapped. Four minutes
>later, another two hit,'' said Slavoljub Blagojevic, manager of a nearby
>sports center.
>The official news agency Tanjug said cars plunged into the river and 15
>boats full of rescue teams searched for victims.
>CNN television quoted a NATO spokesman Sunday night as confirming a bridge
>in the area had been bombed but saying that it was a legitimate military
>target.
>Serbian radio reported Nis was blacked out after NATO planes hit a power
>station there just after 00:30 a.m. (2230 GMT).
>NATO aircraft fired three missiles at the Elektro Istok plant and two
>missiles at the area around the power station minutes later, the radio
>said. Residents said they saw fires burning in the area.
>Later in the night, the electricity plant at Obrenovac, outside Belgrade,
>was hit, causing power failures in some parts of the capital, the
>independent Beta news agency reported.
>Belgrade residents reported hearing strong explosions from the southern and
>eastern suburbs of the city, and heavy anti-aircraft fire. ``Everything is
>shaking around us,'' one said.
>Beta also said an oil refinery on the road between Belgrade and Pancevo was
>hit, with strong blasts heard around the plant around 4 a.m. (0200 GMT).
>NATO also destroyed a bridge in the center of the southern Serbian town of
>Vladicin Han Sunday night, Tanjug reported.
>In another daylight raid Sunday, NATO missiles fell near a group of foreign
>journalists travelling in a convoy in southern Kosovo, Tanjug reported.
>The strike killed a driver and wounded at least two people, French
>philosopher and humanist Daniel Schiffer and Times of London journalist
>Eve-Ann Prentice, Tanjug said. There was no immediate independent
>confirmation of the incident.
>Kosovo came under heavy attack Sunday evening, with 40 missiles hitting the
>southern Serbian province in one five-hour period, Tanjug said. The
>Pristina area and targets around Prizren, Djakovica and Urosevac were hit.
>Caught in the earlier daytime barrage were Yugoslavia's second city of Novi
>Sad in the north, the towns of Smederevo and Kursumlija in central Serbia,
>Presevo and Vranje in the south, and at least six radio and television
>transmission towers.