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Grdelica train bombing
(詳細はNATO aircraft hit a passenger train while it was passing across a railway bridge over the Južna Morava river at Grdelica gorge, some south of Belgrade in Serbia. As a result, 14 civilians including children and a pregnant woman were killed and another 16 passengers wounded.
The bombing occurred during Operation Allied Force, a NATO operation against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) aimed at forcing the FRY government to end the repression of Albanians in Kosovo.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=15 January 2012 )〕 The campaign had begun by attacking mainly military targets, but by mid-April the emphasis had changed to strategic and economic targets such as transport links, particularly major bridges.
==Events==
The bombing occurred at about 11.40 hours local time. An AGM-130 missile precision-guided munition released by a NATO F-15E Strike Eagle struck the centre of the bridge at the exact moment that the No. 393 passenger train, en route from Belgrade to Ristovac, was crossing the bridge. The missile struck the train, causing major damage, but did not destroy the bridge.〔Elmer Schmähling, "More or Less Exposed Non-combatants and Civilian Objects under the conditions of 'Modern Warfare'", in ''Mathematics and War'' (ed. Jens Høyrup, Bernhelm Booss), p. 287. Birkhäuser, 2003. ISBN 3-7643-1634-9〕
According to General Wesley Clark, who was the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) at the time, the train had been traveling too fast and the bomb was too close to the target for it to divert in time. The first missile had been fired from a significant distance from the target, and the pilot was allegedly not able to recognize the train visually. Realizing that the train had been hit but believing that he could still complete the mission by striking the end of the bridge where the train had already passed, the pilot then made another pass and fired a second missile. This one too hit the train. Clark described the second hit as an "uncanny accident" in which the train had continued moving into the target area, obscured by dust and smoke from the first strike,〔(Press Conference by Jamie Shea and General Wesley Clark ), 13 April 1999.〕 stating that the pilot allegedly had had less than one second to react. A gun camera video was released by NATO to support its version of the events.
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