BOSNIAN SERBS RETURN LAST PIECE OF STOLEN HEAVY ARMS

SARAJEVO, Aug 6 (Hina) - Serbs returned the last of five stolen pieces of heavy arms to the U.N. Protection Force (UNPROFOR) at 15:30 hrs Saturday. They had snatched these weapons from a U.N.- monitored heavy weapons collection point at the Sarajevo suburb of Ilidza. A spokesman for the U.N. peacekeepers, Major Dacre Holloway told Hina that the Serbs had handed over an armoured vehicle equipped with one 20mm automatic chain antiaircraft cannon. This vehicle together with previously returned two armoured personnel carriers, one T-55 tank and one Praga anti-aircraft system are at the moment in U.N.-guarded arms depot at Ilidza. A spokesman for UNPROFOR in Sarajevo, Major Rob Annink, said at today's press conference that in Friday's air strike NATO aircraft had destroyed one piece of Serb heavy arms that looks like a tank but is equipped with a more powerful 76mm cannon and one machine gun as well. Several explosions were reported from the western sections of Sarajevo last night, and most of the detonations had been caused by firing mortar shells and hand grenades, as it was said at today's press conference in the UNPROFOR headquarters in Sarajevo. U.N. representatives could not say precisely where the shells had been fired from. However, the usage of mortars within the U.N.-declared 20-kilometre Sarajevo heavy weapons exclusion zone is also the case of violating the Feb. 27 NATO ultimatum referring to the enforcement of the U.N. declaration. Furthermore, mortars are more difficult to be discovered within the zone than such kinds of heavy arms stolen on Friday morning. Four Sarajevans were wounded by sniper fire while driving in a tram through the city's centre, i.e. Marijin Dvor section, on Friday evening. Maj. Annink said that UNPROFOR would undertake antisniping patrols to deter attacks on citizens. Besides already deployed anti-sniper teams in the armoured personnel carriers at the crisis spots within the city the special U.N. troops are to begin foot patrols near suspected sniper positions, even in Bosnian Serb- conquered part of Sarajevo. The U.N. military observers reported that fighting between the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serb forces was still raging near Vares (30 km. N. of Sarajevo). According to U.N. sources, the Bosnian army managed to take control over most part of the area near the village of Brgula, a former Serb stronghold. The full cooperation between the Bosnian army and the Croatian Defence Council was evident in this action, the same sources said. According to the U.N. sources the Bosnian army is gaining ground more and more toward Brcko in the far north of Bosnia. (hina) mar mm 061751 MET aug 94