SERBS OPEN FIRE AT ILYSHIN-76 PLANE IN SARAJEVO AIRPORT

SARAJEVO, March 7 (Hina) - The Sarajevo Airport has been temporarily closed this morning from 9 to 11 am. UNPROFOR spokesman in Sarajevo, Herve Gourmelon, said that one bullet hit an Ilyushin-76 plane just after 9 am while it was trying to land. In the Sarajevo area 435 armed incidents were recorded yesterday, UNPROFOR said adding that sniper attacks had become very serious. Serb forces yesterday opened fire at an Egyptian armoured vehicle and French peacekeepers in Sarajevo. Another UN spokesman, Alexander Ivanko, said that all this looked like "a planned attack for which special orders had been issued." Ivanko also confirmed that the Serb commander Ratko Mladic asked UNPROFOR to withdraw from the eastern Bosnian enclaves and Sarajevo if the 'blue helmets' pulled out from Croatia. Serbs today again rejected a clearance for UNPROFOR civilian police to visit the crew of a "Pharmaciens sans Frontiers" convoy - one American and four Frenchmen who were detained by Serbs last Saturday in the occupied Sarajevo suburb of Lukavica. (Hina) mar rv vm 071522 MET mar 95