ANOTHER WOMAN KILLED IN GRBAVICA

SARAJEVO, March 10 (Hina) - Members of the international police force in Sarajevo today warned that the situation in the suburbs of Ilidza and Grbavica, which are to be handed over to the federal police, was very worrying. UN spokesman Alexander Ivanko said that the Serb police in Ilidza refused to leave their stations and perform their duties, claiming it was too dangerous. #L# The international police force could only intensify patrols, which were unable to prevent violence and plunder. Another woman was killed in an explosion in her apartment in Grbavica yesterday afternoon. The local police are claiming that the woman committed suicide. 'We are not very sure that this version is true', Ivanko said, warning that the international policemen had heard rumors that in the next 48 hours which remained until the hand-over of authority in Ilidza, several hundred buildings would be set afire. IFOR spokesman Simon Haselock said that the IFOR fire brigade only had equipment for purposes of security of the air base and it that could not put out fires on civil objects, except in cases when human lives were in danger. So far, fires had been registered only in abandoned buildings and public objects. Two units with about 250 Italian soldiers are deployed in Grbavica currently while French IFOR soldiers are deployed in Ilidza, but they do not have the mandate to prevent the plunder. IFOR NATO spokesman, Major Thomas Moyer said that people who were leaving the suburbs had the right to take their belongings. However, IFOR officials could not answer say what would happen with equipment from factories and public institutions which the Serbs are also taking away. So far, IFOR soldiers only have the order to protect objects which supply Sarajevo with electricity, water and gas. (hina) rm 101445 MET mar 96