Bosnian Serbs Push Back Muslims
Serbian forces drove back the Muslim-led government army in northwestern Bosnia on Wednesday, and a rebel jet fighter joined in the assault.
Bosnian Serb soldiers and tanks rolled down the main road linking Bosanski Petrovac and Bihac, entering the village of Dubovsko, about 10 miles southeast of Bihac, a Reuters Television crew reported. The Serbian army said it had captured the village of Racic, about six miles from Bihac.
A U.N. military spokesman said shelling and infantry fighting raged around the Serbian-held town of Bosanska Krupa in northwestern Bosnia-Herzegovina, where the Serbs had driven the Muslims back toward high ground east of Bihac.
A jet fighter flying over rebel Serb-held territory in Croatia fired rockets into the mostly Muslim Bihac enclave and appeared to have hit an ammunition dump, a U.N. official said.
The attack was preceded by significant shelling of Bihac and the surrounding area, the official said.
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