Target Unknown Deaths 87–100 Perpetrators NATO Perpetrator NATO | Attack type Missile attack Non-fatal injuries 60 Date 14 May 1999 | |
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Location Koriša, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | ||
On 14 May 1999, NATO aircraft bombed a column of Albanian refugees near Koriša. An operation during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, at least 87 were killed and 60 wounded.
After the bombing, Serbian officials took TV crews to the scene and later Serbian television showed scenes of devastation, bodies burned beyond recognition and charred tractors scattered at the scene of the attack. The Yugoslav government insisted that NATO had targeted civilians, while Kosovo Albanian survivors claimed that they had been set up by Yugoslav authorities so that they would be killed by NATO bombs. The incident occurred near Koriša, a town near the southern city of Prizren.
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