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NATO bombed another civilian bus in Yugoslavia yesterday, killing at least 10 people in a vehicle packed with women and children.
Serb sources said that the bus was destroyed on the road between the Kosovo town of Pee and the neighbouring republic of Montenegro.
The attack - the second such strike against a civilian bus within the space of 72 hours - took place near the village of Savine Vode, 7.5 miles west of Pee.
Continued NATO air strikes in the area hampered rescue efforts.
"The aggressor is continuing incessant attacks on the area so that rescue teams cannot reach the site of the tragedy," said Yugoslav news agency Tanjug.
NATO hit a bus travelling north of the provincial capital Pristina on Saturday, killing 39 people, many of them children.
Labour MP Alice Mahon condemned NATO for its use of Yugoslavia as a "testing ground" for weapons.
Ms Mahon was referring to the use of NATO "soft bombs," which strafe carbon and graphite coils, causing power systems to short-circuit.
The bombs were used for the first time in the early hours of yesterday morning, plunging Belgrade and large parts of Yugoslavia into darkness.
The attacks also cut some water supplies and temporarily affected service in Yugoslav hospitals, according to residents.
"Yugoslavia is being used as a testing ground," said Ms Mahon, commenting that she was "horrified" by this latest development in the NATO war.
"These are real people and there is no doubt that this is a weapon for use against civilians.
"The idea that you can knock out a power station without causing harm to civilians is absolutely ridiculous," she said.
Fuel shortages caused by the NATO onslaught meant that hospital patients were at risk because of insufficient oil to drive emergency generators, she said.
NATO vowed to continue its new tactic of blacking out vast areas of Yugoslavia.
NATO spokesman Jamie Shea boasted: "We can turn the power off whenever we need to and whenever we want to,"
State power company officials said that the electricity grid failed after NATO warplanes hit a major line that supplied power from the plant at Obrenovac in south-west Serbia.
Engineers were working to repair the system and, shortly before dawn, power had been restored to several cities and about 20 per cent of Belgrade itself.