IFOR TROOPS APPREHEND SIX ATTACKERS IN BOSNIA

SARAJEVO, July 29 (Hina) - Members of the Implementation Force (IFOR) in Bosnia on Sunday apprehended six armed persons near Visoko, some 20 kilometres north of Sarajevo. IFOR spokesman Bratt Boudreau said on Monday that members of the French IFOR gendarmerie forces began a search of the terrain after a NATO soldier had been shot at near the airport at Visoko. #L# The soldier was wounded in the arm. After a search of the area, the French gendarmerie troops found six persons in a house, two of them were in military uniforms. They also found two kalashnikovs in the same house and in a near-by building they found 30 pieces of various weapons and more than a thousand bullets. All the weapons had been confiscated, four of the apprehended persons had been set free after questioning and two attackers in military uniforms were still in an IFOR prison and would be handed over to the local authorities after the investigation was concluded, Boudreau said. He confirmed that two Moroccan IFOR soldiers had been hurt in a traffic accident near Konjice on Sunday. Their vehicle turned over and one of the soldiers had to have his leg amputated. (hina) lm 291356 MET jul 96