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10-10-2006, 06:13 PM
Missile hits Bosnia mosque ahead of Ramadan meal
Tue 10 Oct 2006 15:35:47 BST
SARAJEVO, Oct 10 (Reuters) - A missile fired from a hand-held launcher damaged a mosque in the southern Bosnian town of Mostar on Tuesday just before worshippers were due to gather for a pre-dawn Ramadan meal, officials said.
The mosque is in the Jasenica area, a Croat-majority suburb of the town which is split evenly between Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats. It was built last year on the ruins of an Islamic building destroyed in the fighting in 1993-1994 between the two groups.
The missile was fired from a "Zolja" hand-held grenade launcher at around 4:30 a.m. (0230 GMT), local police said. Nobody was hurt.
Local Islamic leader Salem Dedovic said the missile was launched from a position about 100 metres (yards) away from the building minutes before believers were due to rise for their pre-dawn meal during the fasting month of Ramadan.
"The mosque suffered considerable damage," Dedovic told Reuters by telephone from Mostar.
He said the explosion damaged the main entrance, front windows and domes as well as the back windows and facade.
Mostar was heavily damaged in the wartime fighting that also claimed the town's landmark 16th century stone bridge.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L10888408&WTmodLoc=World-R5-Alertnet-2
Tue 10 Oct 2006 15:35:47 BST
SARAJEVO, Oct 10 (Reuters) - A missile fired from a hand-held launcher damaged a mosque in the southern Bosnian town of Mostar on Tuesday just before worshippers were due to gather for a pre-dawn Ramadan meal, officials said.
The mosque is in the Jasenica area, a Croat-majority suburb of the town which is split evenly between Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats. It was built last year on the ruins of an Islamic building destroyed in the fighting in 1993-1994 between the two groups.
The missile was fired from a "Zolja" hand-held grenade launcher at around 4:30 a.m. (0230 GMT), local police said. Nobody was hurt.
Local Islamic leader Salem Dedovic said the missile was launched from a position about 100 metres (yards) away from the building minutes before believers were due to rise for their pre-dawn meal during the fasting month of Ramadan.
"The mosque suffered considerable damage," Dedovic told Reuters by telephone from Mostar.
He said the explosion damaged the main entrance, front windows and domes as well as the back windows and facade.
Mostar was heavily damaged in the wartime fighting that also claimed the town's landmark 16th century stone bridge.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L10888408&WTmodLoc=World-R5-Alertnet-2