HUNGARIAN IFOR TROOPS TO REPAIR BRIDGE BETWEEN STARA GRADISKA AND BOSANSKA GRADISKA

BOSANSKA GRADISKA ZAGREB, Feb 8 (Hina) - The Hungarian IFOR engineering unit would repair the destroyed Sava river bridge connecting Stara Gradiska and Bosanska Gradiska (120 km east of Zagreb), spokesman for the Hungarian IFOR troops in Pustare near Okucani, Major Emil Varadi, told by phone to the Croatian news agency Hina. #L# The Hungarian engineers would not reconstruct the bridge, but only fix it. Its reconstruction depended on Croatia and Bosnia- Herzegovina, Varadi said, adding that the bridge would be repaired on the basis of British projects for 'Mabey-Johnson' type of bridge. The Hungarian soldiers had started cleaning the northern, Croatian bank of the Sava and they had not found any unexploded mines, Varadi said, adding they knew that there were mines on the Bosnian Sava bank. A ferry would be used to cross the river at the beginning and a pontoon bridge would be built later on, Varadi added. The Hungarian IFOR soldiers would cooperate with the members of the 2nd light infantry unit of the British IFOR 4th division, which controlled the Bosnian bank of the Sava, Varadi said. (hina) rm mm 081317 MET feb 96