Sunday, March 4, 2012

4 TROOPS KILLED IN BOSNIA.(MAIN)

Byline: SRECKO LATAL Associated Press

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Four soldiers were killed and a U.S. Army officer wounded in separate incidents Sunday, the single worst day of casualties sustained so far in the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Bosnia.

Three British soldiers were killed when their vehicle hit a mine near Mrkonjic Grad in the northwest. A Swedish soldier died when an armored personnel carrier skidded off a road in the north.

In Ilidza, a Serb-held suburb west of Sarajevo, Lt. Shawn H. Watts was grazed on the neck by a sniper's bullet. The 28-year-old from Greenwood, Miss., returned to duty several hours later.

NATO said …

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