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To: Neocon who wrote (6033)	4/29/1999 4:41:00 PM
From: George Papadopoulos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Neocon, I think you were the one who asked about the missile missing the target and ending up in Sofia...well here is the news on it. SOFIA, April 28 (AFP) - A bomb or missile thought to be of NATO origin, fell on a house near Sofia, the Bulgarian capital early Thursday, tearing the roof off and destroying the upper storey, Bulgarian authorities said. Nobody was hurt. Bulgarian President Petar Stoyanov immediately went to the scene in the Sofia suburb of Gorna Bania. He said on the radio that he had ordered ballistic tests to determine the origine and nature of the projectile. The findings were expected to be made public Thursday morning. "Fortunately there were no casualties. The inhabitants are safe and sound," the president said. "All I can say is that this is not good. Nobody was expecting this kind of development." The projectile fell on the three-storey house at 00:40 a.m. Thursday, a few minutes after an aircraft had flown over Bulgarian airspace at an altitude of 7,000 metres (23,000 feet). "We heard a loud bang and we came out to see what was going on. We saw this house, with its roof torn off and the owners who had run outside were very frightened, particularly their one year-old boy," a neighbour Lubomir Cristov said on the radio. Stoyanov said he had immediately telephoned NATO headquarters in Brussels. The radio said the blast blew out windows in surrounding buildings and caused widespread panic. The projectile caused smoke but there was no fire. Gorna Bania is on the northern fringes of Sofia, about 15 kilometres (nine miles) from the city centre. Since the start of NATO airstrikes on Yugoslavia on March 24, several debris of bombs and missiles have fallen in Bulgaria, so far without causing any casualties. The residents of the border town of Breznik on Saturday asked parliament speaker Yordan Sokolov for guarantees concerning the safety of their children. On Friday, a NATO air-to-air missile fell 300 metres (yards) from a house in the neighbouring village of Babitza. The plane which dropped the missile had just flown over Babitza. "We are very worried about the constant intrusions of NATO planes into Bulgarian airspace and missile debris falling on our territory," the prime minister acknowledged Tuesday. The radio noted that Bulgaria has never formally authorised NATO planes to fly over its territory.