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Lužane bus bombing

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Location
  
Lužane, Kosovo

Target
  
Bridge

Deaths
  
23–60

Date
  
May 1, 1999

Attack type
  
Missile attack

Perpetrators
  
NATO

The Lužane bus bombing occurred on May 1, 1999 during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, when NATO missiles targeting a bridge in Kosovo hit a bus. The bus was hit on the Lužane north of Pristina. Estimates of the number of people killed vary from 23 up to 60. One section plunged off the bridge into the river below. Amnesty International believes that NATO did not always meet its legal obligation in selection targets of attack, one of which includes bombing of this bridge in Lužane, where NATO forces failed to suspend the attack after it was evident that they had struck the civilians. The bus (Niš-Ekspres) was on a regular express service, linking Pristina and Niš.

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Lužane bus bombing Wikipedia