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(23 Apr 1999) Serbo-Croat/Nat
The Serbs now say at least 10 people are dead and 18 more injured after a NATO missile hit the headquarters of the government-run T-V.
Twenty others are feared buried beneath the rubble.
NATO claims Serb T-V was a legitimate military target, as it broadcast "propaganda".
It was a scene of devastation.
Serbia's main television station (R-T-S) took a direct hit as NATO airstrikes continued early on Friday.
It took the station off the air midway through the broadcast of a recorded interview with President Slobodan Milosevic.
When the station resumed broadcasting after six hours - by broadcasting from another transmitter - it reported that the attack had killed or injured a number of staff members.
Rescue workers struggled to contain the fire whilst trying to release people trapped inside.
Two floors of the building collapsed, scattering debris and crushing everything beneath.
Firefighters were helped by police as they tried to remove the injured from the rubble.
One survivor had a lucky escape when the floor beneath him collapsed.
SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat)
"From that shaking (from the bombs) I suddenly found myself in studio three, which is under studio one, and that is one floor below."
SUPER CAPTION: Mihjalo Aleksic, station employee
By dawn on Friday, more people had joined the rescue efforts.
Firefighters were still battling to kill the fire.
The search for people trapped in the collapsed shell of the building also continued.
The Serbian information minister blamed President Clinton and Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair for the devastation, calling them -- quote -- "the biggest criminals and beasts."
NATO had warned it would strike broadcasting facilities.
It had previously argued that the broadcasting facilities were used by President Milosevic to relay military communications and were also a source of anti-NATO propaganda.
This is unlikely to be the last such strike.

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