$ ILWAY LINE VINKOVCI, 24 April (Hina) - The Serb side failed to arrive at a meeting on the opening of the Vinkovci-Tovarnik railway line, which was to take place today at the UNTAES check-point between Nustar and Brsadin, Pavo
Pitkanen, head of the UNTAES Civil Affairs Office for Vukovar County said on Wednesday.
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VINKOVCI, 24 April (Hina) - The Serb side failed to arrive at a
meeting on the opening of the Vinkovci-Tovarnik railway line, which
was to take place today at the UNTAES check-point between Nustar
and Brsadin, Pavo Pitkanen, head of the UNTAES Civil Affairs Office
for Vukovar County said on Wednesday. #L#
Members of a Croatian army engineering unit were to check
another section of the Vinkovci-Tovarnik railway line with a
special mine-sweeping tank, but were prevented from doing their job
and returned by the Serbs.
Namely, during yesterday's mine-sweeping the tank chain-
activated mines along the railway line. The explosion caused a huge
fire on uncultivated fields which spread to the Jankovacka dubrava
forest.
Members of the Croatian army engineering units have so far
removed mines from a 1400-meters-long and 100-meters-wide strip of
land along the Vinkovci-Tovarnik railway line.
Several thousands of mines have been destroyed since 26 March
when the mine-sweeping operation started. Before the mine-sweeping
operation along the Vinkovci-Tovarnik railway line, the area along
the highway near Lipovac had been cleared of mines.
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