Blast Damages New Bridge in Bosnia
A bomb blast badly damaged a new bridge linking Serbian and Muslim-Croatian territories in Bosnia, and NATO troops chased suspects in a car that disappeared into the Serbian sector, NATO officials said Saturday.
Soldiers in the NATO-led peace force known as IFOR pursued a car carrying suspects into the nearby Serb-held town of Doboj after the explosion and tried to capture them, Maj. Brett Boudreau said.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization troops backed off when a menacing crowd materialized at the scene, Boudreau said.
“They tried to stop the vehicle but decided this was not prudent when a crowd of 200 to 300 people gathered quickly,” he said.
The road bridge spans a tributary of the Usora River along a former wartime front line now patrolled by IFOR.
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