SEVERE FIGHTING IN WESTERN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA FRONTS

SARAJEVO, March 4 (Hina) - Fighting in the western Bosnia- Herzegovina fronts continued. UN Bangladeshi peacekeepers counted 135 detonations in the eastern of the Velika Kladusa front while 56 heavy explosions were recorded around Bihac. Sever clashes were also registered in the area of Bosanska Krupa yesterday. UN military observers reported an artillery exchange that had lasted for 45 minutes. An UNPROFOR patrol yesterday came under mortar fire in the vicinity of Bosanska Krupa and was forced to leave the area. UN High commissioner for refugees in Sarajevo, Kris Janowski, said the humanitarian situation in western Bosnia-Herzegovina was deteriorating because rebel Serbs in Croatia were blocking the UN Bihac-bound food convoy. "We are now where we were two weeks ago and if the blockage continues the situation in region will become critical very soon", Janowski said. (Hina) rv as 041349 MET mar 95