Baby airlifted out of Sarajevo

Senada Agic helps a United Nations medical orderly carry her six-month-old baby abroad an Italian air force transport plane at Sarajevo airport for a flight to the Sovenian capital, Ljubljana. The baby needed urgent medical treatment for a heart condition, and the UN arranged its transfer from a Sarajevo hospital. Britain announced it was preparing to send a medical team to Sarajevo to treat sick and injured children in the fighting, instead of flying the children out of the combat zone writes Colin Brown. Although contingency plans are being discussed for dealing with the evacuation of 60 children to Britain, John Major made it clear to the Commons yesterday that the Government favoured no airlift to Britain. 'If it is possible to treat the children on the spot, near to their families, with people around them who speak their language and in relatively familiar surroundings, then that is obviously the best way,' Mr Major told MPs.

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