FIERCE FIGHTING IN WESTERN BOSNIA AND AROUND KONJIC

SARAJEVO, Sept 14 (Hina) - The Bosnian army 5th Corps yesterday launched a fierce counter-offensive on the strategic Mount Radac in western Bosnia, a news conference at UNPROFOR headquarters in Sarajevo was told today. The Bosnian army reconquered the northern border between Bosnia and Croatia in western Bosnia, he said. According to UN military observers, the Bosnian army also managed to seize a considerable amount of weapons, including a T-55 tank, several 12-mm mortars and anti-aircraft guns. The news conference was told that Serb forces yesterday, again shelled Konjic, 50 km S. of Sarajevo. According to UN military spokesman, Major Eric Chaperon, the shelling was probably a retaliatory attack for the successful actions of the Bosnian infantry S.W. of Konjic - the latter aimed at seizing Kalinovik, a strategic town on the intersection of roads linking Sarajevo with Gorazde and eastern Herzegovina. UN military observers yesterday observed renewed fighting in northern Bosnia. Although the situation in Gorazde had been calm for weeks, at least five civilians were wounded yesterday in the eastern-Bosnian town. Two of the civilians were wounded in the 3-km exclusion zone. UNPROFOR said today that the Serbs fired 120-mm shells at Bosnian army positions in the "safe zone" on Monday night. The shells were also fired from the safe zone. (hina) mm as sd 141447 MET sep 94