BOSNIAN ARMY CONFIRMS ITS TROOPS ABDUCTED CROAT GENERAL

ZAGREB, March 15 (Hina) - Bosnian army military police have arrested a group of soldiers who abducted a Bosnian Croat general in the Bihac area of northwestern Bosnia last week. The Bosnian army Fifth Corps apprehended a group of military police from the 502nd Brigade on the night of March 10 and put them in custody. The group had kidnapped Croat Defence Council (HVO) General Vlado Santic on the night of March 8 and taken him in an unknown direction from the Sedra Hotel, a dozen kilometres from Bihac town. The information was released in a statement by the commander of the Bosnian army Fifth Corps, General Atif Dudakovic, which was carried by the Bihac press agency. A copy of the statement was made available to Hina today. Dudakovic could not say with certainty what had happened with General Santic but expressed suspicion that the worst had happened. Dudakovic hoped that this incident would not strain relations between Bosnian Croats and Moslems. (hina) mm vm 151908 MET mar 95