Trapped by advancing armies, tens of thousands of Serb men, women and children on tractors and in horse-drawn carts desperately sought refuge outside a U.N. compound or simply jammed roads awaiting relief. Epic scenes were unfolding for hundreds of miles across the former Yugoslav federation, from the Krajina southeast of Zagreb, eastward across northern Bosnia-Herzegovina to Serbia. Angry and anguished Serbs fled a victorious Croatian military, which had recaptured the Krajina in a weekend rout that ended the separatist rebels' vision of a Greater Serbia homeland. More than 120,000 Serbs were moving from Croatia, the United Nations said, and officials estimated that the number could reach 200,000. Relief workers, struggling to get water, fuel or basic shelter to the masses of displaced people, warned of a catastrophic humanitarian crisis.
People are in a state of panic and fear.
Some can't move. People are wounded. . . . The authorities are just overwhelmed by the sheer . . . Many of the refugees were blocked as they fled, caught between the Croatian army advancing from the north and the newly triumphant Bosnian government army from the south. Shelling was also reported near Topusko.