ONE SFOR SOLDIER STABBED, ANOTHER DIES IN CAR ACCIDENT

TUZLA, July 16 (Hina) - An SFOR soldier was stabbed with a sickle in Serb territory near the town of Kladanj, 80 km north of Sarajevo, on Wednesday morning, the NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) said in a statement. The incident happened when the soldier, on patrol, was looking into the cause of noise coming from a building. He was attacked from behind by a man wielding a sickle and stabbed in the shoulder. The injured soldier was taken to a nearby SFOR camp where he received treatment for a wound five to eight centimetres deep. In a separate incident, a US SFOR soldier died and another was seriously injured in a car accident which happened north of Gornji Vakuf in central Bosnia on Tuesday. The injured soldier was flown to a US base outside Tuzla after receiving first aid in a hospital in Sipovo. Both soldiers were members of the SFOR intelligence service based in Sarajevo. They were returning from the north-western Serb-held town of Banja Luka to Sarajevo when the accident happened. Their names will be released subsequently, the statement said. (hina) vm mm 161556 MET jul 97