Planners were unaware that retreating Yugoslav forces had abandoned the site to the ethnic Albanian rebels weeks ago, NATO officials said. Some of the inmates belonged to the Kosovo Liberation Army. Hit Belgrade Hospital NATO spokesman Jamie Shea said a bomb intended for a military barracks overshot its mark, but he offered no details.
Yugoslav officials say it struck a hospital, killing four people.
Kosovo Bombing Warning that civilian casualties are inevitable as long as Yugoslav troops amass ethnic Albanians at military targets, NATO continued Sunday to target the Serbian province of Kosovo with its air campaign. Allied jets bombed a group of refugees who had settled down for the night Thursday in Kosovo, killing at least 79, Serb officials and survivors said. NATO officials are investigating. With no end to the war in sight, anxious ethnic Albanians are being trucked from refugee camps near the Albanian border to less-crowded ones farther from Kosovo. Ethnic Albanians Find Refuge in Va. is too large and a is too cramped.