MINOR INCIDENT REPORTED FROM POLLING STATION IN EAST BOSNIA ( Editorial: --> 2918 )

( Editorial: --> 2918 ) SARAJEVO, Nov 22 (Hina) - All 1,255 polling stations for the Bosnian Serb parliamentary elections were opened at 08.00 am Saturday, and the voting was proceeding with no problem, a spokesman for the OSCE mission, Luke Zahner, said in Sarajevo on Saturday morning. An incident occurred on early Saturday morning at Kopaci, in the Serb-controlled part of the Gorazde area, eastern Bosnia, Zahner added. An explosion was registered in front of the polling station in Kopaci before the opening of the station. Slight material damage was caused and the incident did not obstruct the election which went on regularly, he said. According to the Sarajevo headquarters of the NATO-led Stabilisation Force, an explosive device went off in Kopaci and windows were broken but no one was injured in the blast. A local police station is in the immediate vicinity of the spot of the blast. International Police Task Force (IPTF) investigators and an SFOR patrol are now in Kopaci to establish circumstances of the explosion. (hina) mš 221230 MET nov 97