INVESTIGATION INTO ATTACK ON SFOR VEHICLE CONTINUES - CORIC

MOSTAR, Feb 21 (Hina) - Herzegovina Canton Interior Minister Valentin Coric said on Friday that the investigation into Thursday night's attack on a SFOR vehicle in Mostar's centre was not going to be completed on Friday. #L# Coric said that he had held talks with an International police Task Force (IPTD) official about the investigation process. Coric said that the direction from which a grenade at the SFOR vehicle had been fired was still being investigated. The vehicle was a hundred metres from the Spanish Square in the centre of Mostar at the time of the hit. The fact that the attack had taken place in the western part of Mostar (controlled by Croats) did not prove anything, Coric said commenting on accusations of a part of the world public that the Croat side was responsible for the attack because it had happened on the west side of the Neretva river. Coric explained that the part of town on the west bank was not exclusively under Croat control, because a small part of west Mostar was controlled by the Moslem side. The incident had taken place exactly on the border between the Croat-held and Moslem-held territory on the west bank, Coric said. He added that after the grenade had been fired at the SFOR vehicle, SFOR troops had surrounded that part of town and conducted a search. (hina) lm jn 211940 MET feb 97