IFOR HELICOPTERS RESCUE 3 CIVILIANS NEAR TESLICI

TUZLA, Sept 24 (Hina) - IFOR troops on Monday rescued three civilians from a flooded mine field in northern Bosnia, a statement from IFOR Sector North Public Relations Office in Tuzla said on Tuesday. Two cars carrying the civilians ran off a road near Teslici, carried by the flooded river Usora. The cars got stranded in mud in the flooded field and the people could not reach the road as that section of the field had been covered with mines. After an attempt of rescuing them with a bulldozer had failed because the level of water had risen one metre in a short period of time, IFOR sent helicopters of the 236th medicinal brigade to the scene and the civilians were rescued with ropes from the air. (hina) lm jn 241648 MET sep 96