TEN KILLED IN YESTERDAY'S SERB ATTACK ON SARAJEVO SUBURB

SARAJEVO, May 8 (Hina) - Yesterday's Serb attack on the Sarajevo suburb of Butmir represented a most severe violation of the UN safe area around the Bosnian capital since the February 1994 massacre at Markale market place, UN spokesman in Sarajevo Colum Murphy said today. The casualty toll increased as two of the severely wounded persons had died in the meantime, Murphy said. UN military observers said that at least 12 severely wounded civilians were hospitalized. As many as 40 persons were believed to have been wounded in the attack. UNPROFOR Headquarters said that the city had been hit by five shells fired by Serb forces in the village of Gornji Kotarac, south of Sarajevo. Yesterday's attack had not been provoked and it represented an act of gross violence, Murphy said. UNPROFOR strongly condemned such violence which threatened civilian lives, and General Smith's spokesman said a military response was not ruled out. UN spokesman in Sarajevo Garry Coward said that military observers had counted at least 17 mortar detonations in Sarajevo, mostly in the city centre. Coward said the UN believed that Serbs besieging Sarajevo had dozens of mortars which were not under UN supervision. Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic said the Bosnian side would be forced to take action to prevent further attacks on civilians if the U.N. and West European countries did not punish Serbs for violating the UN-declared safe area around Sarajevo. (hina) jn rm vm 081436 MET may 95