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A Day That Shook The World: Sarajevo market massacre

Saturday 05 February 2011 01:00 GMT
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On 5 February 1994 a mortar bomb hit Sarajevo's busy main market killing 66 and injuring 200.

The 120mm shell was fired into the packed open-air market at midday, causing untold destruction.

It was the day that Bosnian Serb, Muslim and Croat politicians were due to meet in the city for peace talks.

The attack took place 22 months into the Balkan war which dominated much of the last decade of the Twentieth Century.

This shocking video footage (above) of the aftermath is courtesy of British Pathe.

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