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Serb authorities took Western journalists to view wreckage near Gradis
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April 16, 1999
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BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- NATO officials fended off continued questions about civilian deaths in Kosovo on Friday, telling reporters they had no further information about any refugees killed in NATO airstrikes.

NATO admits an air attack earlier this week on a convoy near Meja, north of Djakovica, might have killed civilian refugees. But NATO spokesman Jamie Shea and NATO's military spokesman, Italian Gen. Giuseppe Marani, refused to comment on other attacks.

Serb authorities said at least 64 people were killed when NATO planes attacked a convoy of ethnic Albanian civilians Wednesday.

"We have no indication of any other hit on a civilian vehicle other than the one that we owned up to and apologized for north of Djakovica on Wednesday," Shea said.

NATO acknowledges hitting two convoys near Bistrazin, one of which it says was a military convoy and another it says was a refugee convoy with military vehicles at the front and rear. Alliance officials say they attacked only military vehicles, and cut one attack short for fear of hurting civilians.

But Yugoslav officials also say NATO attacks killed more than 75 people in a civilian convoy near the town of Pirane, in southwestern Kosovo.

Shea and Marani repeatedly put off questions about those reports, telling reporters at Friday's NATO news conference that the incidents were still under investigation.

"We cannot give you information that we do not have," Shea told reporters at one point.

Serb authorities, meanwhile, took Western journalists to view the wreckage of a convoy near Gradis, east of Bistrazin, which the Serbs described as having been hit in a deliberate attack on civilians. They noted the English lettering on bomb fragments at the scene.

Shea and Marani sparred with reporters several times Friday about reports of other attacks on civilians. Shea said allied pilots had erred in attacking the convoy near Meja, "But NATO puts its setbacks behind it. This is what we've done, and this is what we're going to do."

In other developments in Yugoslavia:

Better weather allowed NATO planes to carry out wide- ranging attacks on Yugoslav targets, including the military airfield in the Montenegrin capital of Podgorica.

Montenegro, the smaller of two republics in the Yugoslav federation, has tried to remain neutral in the fight between Yugoslavia and NATO. But planes based at Podgorica could threaten NATO forces in neighboring Albania, Marani said.

Friday's targets also included ammunition and fuel stocks, as well as anti-aircraft installations and the Yugoslav airfield at Nis, Gen. Sir Charles Guthrie, Britain's chief of staff, said Friday.

"Two MiG 21s, three tanks, six artillery positions and six bunkers were destroyed," Guthrie said.

Markings on bomb fragments shown by Serbs to international journalists in Gradis are in English