SERB REBELS' AMMUNITION FOUND IN COASTAL VILLAGE

SIBENIK, Feb 6 (Hina) - Sibenik policemen on Saturday discovered over 40 trunks containing more than 4,000 pieces of various ammunition in the village of Smrdelj, Croatia's central coastal area. It is assumed the ammunition, found by Mate Zorica from Laskovica, was left behind by Serb rebels in 1991. "The ammunition and weaponry was manufactured in Yugoslavia and belonged to the former Yugoslav federation," said Ivica Paic, head of the Sibenik-Knin County police anti-explosives unit. The ammunition found includes ammunition for 20mm anti-aircraft cannons, "OSA" anti-armoured vehicle rockets, and 120mm mortar shells. The decaying wooden trunks containing the ammunition indicate they were hidden in a cleft between two rocks at the beginning of the Serb aggression on Croatia in 1991. Some 50m from the found trunks was discovered a mortar location with clearly discernible spots where the 120mm mortars were placed. Not far is a well-preserved bunker, and two unfired 120mm shells. These locations are the positions which Serb rebels used in 1991 to attack and terrorise Croatian villages in the Skradin and Drnis areas. (hina) ha