FIERCE FIGHTING IN WESTERN BOSNIA, UNPROFOR SAYS

SARAJEVO, July 16 (Hina) - UN spokesman in Sarajevo Major Rob Annink said on Saturday that fighting in western Bosnia between the Bosnian Army Fifth Corps and forces loyal to local leader Fikret Abdic, and between the Fifth Corps and Serb forces continued today. According to Annink, the fiercest clashes were registered in the areas of the Grabez Plato and Otoka, east of the town of Bihac, where Serbs launched yesterday an infantry attack. Fighting was reported from the southern part of the Ozren battlefield, northern Bosnia. Early this morning the UNPROFOR Jordanian Battalion, which is deployed in the Tuzla area (north-eastern Bosnia), registered four detonations of tank shells near the airport. Talking about the situation in Sarajevo, Annink said that a civilian was killed from sniper in the section of Alipasino Polje yesterday. The sniper fire was opened from the direction of the Serb stronghold in Nedzarici. 161353 MET jul 94