TWO CROAT-OWNED HOUSES BLOWN UP IN KAKANJ AREA

SARAJEVO, Aug 27 (Hina) - Two houses owned by Croats who had recently returned to the Kakanj area of central Bosnia were blown up on August 22, UNHCR spokesman Kris Janowski said in Sarajevo on Wednesday. Unknown assailants mined the houses in the village of Lipovci Gornji, which had been repaired with the support of an Italian humanitarian organisation. Janowski said that the two houses had been almost completely destroyed, and that a man and a woman who had been inside one of the houses had been injured. Janowski described the incident as an attempted murder. He said that local authorities were urged to step up security measures to prevent similar attacks. (hina) vm jn 271807 MET aug 97