Five workers were injured on Monday in the sudden collapse of a downtown Belgrade building damaged by a U.S. cruise missile during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia six years ago.

Police said a floor of the former Yugoslav Army building gave way without warning, spilling members of a work crew onto the rubble below and shrouding the district in clouds of dust.

The Serbian capital still bears visible scars of the 78-day bombing campaign in 1999, when the NATO allies bombed strategic and military targets to compel then Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw his forces from Kosovo.

Three police or army buildings lie in ruins on one of the main boulevards, untouched since the night they were hit, with fridge-size chunks of blasted concrete dangling from rusting reinforcement rods and weeds sprouting from the walls.

Serbian President: Kosovo’s Independence Absolutely Unacceptable for Serbia

Meanwhile, Serbian President Boris Tadic said that the independence of Kosovo is absolutely unacceptable for Serbia. He also called Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova for a direct dialogue, Serbian TV RTS reported. In an interview for Serbian agency FoNet, Tadic said the issue about Kosovo and Metohija is going to be solved very soon.

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Serbian President Boris Tadic.