IFOR TROOPS CONTINUE SEARCHING FOR UNAUTHORIZED WEAPONS

SARAJEVO, Dec 3 (Hina) - Members of the NATO-led peace Implementation Force (IFOR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Tuesday continued searching police stations for unauthorized weapons. On Monday IFOR troops searched four police stations in the Serb-controlled Banja Luka region of northwestern Bosnia and seized small amounts of unauthorized weapons and ammunition in three of them, IFOR spokesman Bratt Boudreau told a news conference in Sarajevo. A British IFOR soldier died in the northwestern town of Mrkonjic Grad on Monday, Boudreau said, adding that his death was not related to military activities. (hina) vm jn 031410 MET dec 96