BOSNIAN CROAT TROOPS ADVANCE TOWARD KUPRES

MOSTAR, Nov 2 (Hina/HABENA) - The Croatian Defence Council (HVO) troops managed to take control over larger part of the Kupres municipality (southwest Bosnia) during a counterattack in response to yesterday's artillery attack of the Serb aggressors on the village of Sujica. The Kupres area had been conquered by Bosnian Serbs since April 1992. In the counterattack the HVO forces took control over the Prozor-Tomislavgrad road and liberated north of the road the villages of Brdo, Jecam, Stjeniti Vrh, Donje i Gornje Ravno, Donji i Gornji Musici and Vukovsko, the Herzeg-Bosnian news agency, HABENA, reported on Wednesday morning. The HVO forces also encircled the Serb troops in Donji Malovan and Zanaglina at the Split-Livno-Kupres-Bugojno-Banja Luka road, according to the Herzeg-Bosnian defence officials. Serb two tanks and two armoured vehicles were destroyed and one tank captured. The Serb troops were panic-stricken having suffered great human losses, according to the same sources. The HVO forces continued advancing toward the town of Kupres. (hina0 mar mms 021058 MET nov 94