(3 Jun 1995) Natural Sound
121 U-N peacekeepers arrived in Zagreb late Saturday after their release from Bosnian Serb captivity.
Meanwhile, NATO was still seeking word on the fate of the American pilot whose fighter jet was shot down over Bosnia on Friday.
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The two Russian made U-N aircraft touched down in Zagreb late Saturday.
The Bosnian Serbs freed the group who had been held hostage for more than a week
The Bosnian Serbs took a total of 377 peacekeepers from five countries hostage after NATO jets attacked Serb ammunition dumps May 25-26 in
retaliation for the Serbs' failure to return weapons taken from a
U-N monitoring depot.
U-N Special Envoy Yasushi Akashi was on hand the greet the soldiers.
The Canadians in the group are scheduled to fly onto Split in the next
24 hours.
Earlier the freed U-N peacekeepers were driven from the Serbian town Novi Sad to Belgrade.
More than 250 other peacekeepers remained hostages of the Bosnians Serbs. The group of 121 peacekeepers was freed under the auspices of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.
But even as the latest releases were taking place rebel Serbs seized another 45 Canadians north of Sarajevo.
This Canadian led U-N base in Visiko north west of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo is where the freed Canadian soldiers will end up.
NATO was seeking word on the fate of the pilot of the U.S. fighter jet shot down Friday over northern Bosnia. Bosnian Serb military sources in Pale told The Associated Press that the pilot was alive and in Bosnian Serb hands.
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