NATO sends list of bomb-drop locations

NATO has provided Serbia with the locations of all cluster bombs dropped in 1999, says a spokesman for the organization. "We handed the information over yesterday during a meeting with the Serbian ambassador [to NATO], Branko Milinkovic," said the unnamed spokesman, adding that NATO would be issuing a statement on the matter. NATO sends list of bomb-drop locations The data concerns the territory of Serbia, including Kosovo, while the document should contain coordinates of the locations where over a thousand cluster bombs were dropped. Earlier reports suggested that there were cluster bomb remains strewn over twenty-three square kilometers in Serbia. In February, Belgrade asked NATO for information regarding the locations of the bombs, which killed dozens of civilians in 1999 in attacks on Nis, and on numerous places throughout the country, particularly Kosovo. The danger of cluster bombs is that not all of them explode at first contact, but can detonate years later. They are particularly dangerous for children who go round picking them up, thinking they are toys.

NATO sends list of bomb-drop locations

The data concerns the territory of Serbia, including Kosovo, while the document should contain coordinates of the locations where over a thousand cluster bombs were dropped. Earlier reports suggested that there were cluster bomb remains strewn over twenty-three square kilometers in Serbia.

In February, Belgrade asked NATO for information regarding the locations of the bombs, which killed dozens of civilians in 1999 in attacks on Niš, and on numerous places throughout the country, particularly Kosovo.

The danger of cluster bombs is that not all of them explode at first contact, but can detonate years later. They are particularly dangerous for children who go round picking them up, thinking they are toys.