POLICE DESTROY FIVE TRUNKS OF GRENADES FOUND OFF HVAR ISLAND

( Editorial: --> 2415 ) SPLIT, Jan 5 (Hina) - Police in the southern Croatian city of Split said on Monday they had destroyed five trunks containing a total of 75 grenades which had appeared in the sea near the island of Hvar. The origin of the grenades was not known. It was believed that they either belonged to the former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), which used to have a lot of secret arms depots in the area, or that they were dumped off Hvar and washed up by the sea. Split Police Department inspector Ante Baric told Hina that police, after being alerted by a citizen, had found five incomplete and partly broken trunks in the cove of Majerovica, three of which were washed ashore. (hina) vm mm 051318 MET jan 98