On 19 April 1993, during the Croat–Bosniak War, 16 civilians were killed and 50, injured, when a HVO howitzer-fired grenade hit the central bazaar of Zenica. The grenade was shot from the village of Putićevo []. A total of six grenades hit the target, three series of two. During this period Zenica was isolated from the rest of the world for a year and a half. The city suffered significant loss of the civic society from sniper fire, arson and hunger. The fourth-biggest city of BiH had neither water nor electricity.