CLASHES IN BIHAC POCKET INTENSIFY, UN SAYS

ZAGREB, Dec 4 (Hina) - Fighting in the Bihac pocket intensified on Sunday afternoon, a spokesman for UN Protection Force in Sarajevo, Herve Gourmelon, told Hina on the phone tonight. Fresh clashes by artillery and small arms were registered around Bihac and Velika Kladusa, UN Spokesman Gourmelon said. The clashes were raging along the entire front line around Bihac, but the town was calm. The fighting was reported southeast of the Velika Kladusa town as well, he said. Asked whether Serb forces from UN Protected Areas of Croatia were engaged in the fighting, he said he had no such information. A spokesman for the UNPROFOR Headquarters in Zagreb, Paul Risley, confirmed there were severe conflicts in the Bihac pocket. Soldiers loyal to Moslem separatist Fikret Abdic fighting the Bosnian Army's Fifth Corps, were supported by Croatia's rebel Serbs' artillery, Risley added. The most intense tank shelling of Velika Kladusa was registered last night, and it continued this morning, he said. A Bangladeshi UN soldier died from heart attack in Bihac on Saturday morning, Gourmelon said. Risley, however, said the soldier had suffered from asthma, and died because of the "medicines shortage and bad heating conditions". The body of the dead Bangladeshi is to be transported today to the Croatian seaport of Split and then to his homeland. The UN convoy carrying supplies for the Bangladeshi UN Battalion arrived in its base in Coralici on Sunday morning. The convoy dispatched food supplies, fuel and medicines, according to the UNPROFOR sources. Bosnian Serbs today freed a British UN military convoy with 20 engineers, that had been detained in eastern Bosnian town of Rogatica for seven days. The Gorazde-bound convoy tonight reached its destination, the UN spokesman in Sarajevo said. Serbs today let a Dutch UN convoy with 33 members continue its trip to Srebrenica, after they had blocked it in Zvornik for one week. Another 350 UN soldiers around Sarajevo are still detained by Bosnian Serbs, according to the UNPROFOR sources. (hina) mms 041938 MET dec 94