EXPLOSION IN SLAVONSKI BROD CAUSED BY TECHNICAL FAILURE

POZEGA, July 29 (Hina) - According to the first, still unofficial reports, the cause of a fire and a series of explosions which took place within the "Djuro Djakovic" Holding in Slavonski Brod, about 200 km east of Zagreb, on Thursday was a technical failure on a TNT melting furnace, a judge of the Pozega County Court, Dubravka Grguric-Rukavina, who is leading an investigation into the disaster which caused huge damages, said in Pozega on Monday. Experts of the Croatian Ministry of the Interior performed an on-the-spot investigation, said Grguric-Rukavina, adding that according to data the Court had, the disaster was due to technical failures and explosions of mines and explosives stored in the vicinity. The judge pointed out that the County Court had so far not undertaken investigation against any person possibly suspected of having or not having done anything that caused the disaster. (hina) ha mm 291856 MET jul 96