Bosnia Refugee Town Under Siege

Fighting was reported in central Bosnia-Herzegovina on Saturday, hours after Sarajevo was hit with the heaviest bombardment since a truce took effect.

Bosnian radio reported an infantry attack on Travnik, 45 miles northwest of Sarajevo, after a night of intense shelling forced residents into basements.

Refugees of all ages have flooded into Travnik to escape fighting in northern and central Bosnia-Herzegovina as heavily armed Serbian forces, who already hold 70% of the territory, push for more.

In Sarajevo, small-arms fire was heard late Friday and early Saturday in several areas, and Bosnian radio said Serbian forces besieging the city staged two infantry attacks on the defenders’ lines.

But the battered Bosnian capital was mostly quiet after daybreak Saturday, giving U.N. peacekeepers hope that the truce, although tenuous, would hold.

In a separate development, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s naval command in the Italian port of Naples issued a statement saying its ships would begin to enforce a U.N. trade embargo against Yugoslavia in the Adriatic this morning.