BOSNIAN CROAT COLONEL WOUNDED IN NORTHERN BOSNIA

SARAJEVO, Jan 7 (Hina) - Croatian Defence Council (HVO) Colonel Mile Lulic was wounded under unclear circumstances in northern Bosnia on Monday as he was travelling through Serb territory towards the Sava river town of Orasje. Lulic turned up at the McGovern military base of US troops serving in the NATO-led Stabilization Force (SFOR) and asked for help, SFOR spokesman Jan Joosten said in Sarajevo on Tuesday. Lulic was wearing civilian clothes and his vehicle did not have any military markings. After receiving first aid, he was transferred to hospital in the Croatian town of Slavonski Brod, about 200 km east of Zagreb. Lulic received one bullet to the arm and three more bullet holes were found on his car. Joosten said that international and local police would investigate the case, adding that at the moment SFOR officials in Sarajevo did not have any details that may lead to the perpetrators or their motives. (hina) vm 071331 MET jan 97