MUSLIM & SERB PROTESTERS BLOCK TUNNEL IN DOBOJ

( Editorial: --> 9848 ) TUZLA, April 27 (Hina) - The International Police Task Force spokesman in Tuzla, Andrea Angeli, confirmed on Monday that five Serb civilians were wounded on Sunday when two hand grenades were thrown at them in the village of Svjetlece near Doboj. A mixed Bosnian-Serb village before the war, Svjetlece was placed in the Bosnian Serb entity under the Dayton Agreement. The Bosniak (Muslim) refugees have recently started returning to the village on their own. The IPTF assumes that the incident may have been a Muslim response to Serb protests against their return. According to Angeli, it is not yet known who threw the bombs at the Serb civilians. The case is being investigated by Bosnian Serb police. Immediately after the Svjetlece incidents, about 50 Muslim refugees and as many Serbs used rocks and timber to block a tunnel at the very entrance to Doboj. The Muslims blocked one entrance to the tunnel and the Serbs the other. Muslim-Croat Federation and Serb entity police, as well as the IPTF and SFOR flocked to the scene of the incident, trying to restore traffic. According to Angeli, occasional bursts of rifle fire were heard in the area on Sunday night but nobody was hurt. (hina) jn as/mb 271638 MET apr 98