(19 Sep 1995) Natural Sound
The allied Bosnian and Croat advance in western Bosnia slowed down Tuesday as bad weather bogged down fighters.
The lull in the fighting came as the presidents of Bosnia and Croatia indicated to American mediators that their forces would halt their offensive against the rebel Serb stronghold of Banja Luka,
In western Bosnia, APTV had the first pictures of Bosanska Krupa, one of the towns which fell to the Bosnian Army at the weekend.
These are the first pictures from Bosanska Krupa, after it was taken by the Bosnian Army on Sunday.
The Bosnian Army marked their victory by flying their flag high above the town.
It was the latest in a string of victories that the Bosnian government claims has reclaimed them around 4,000 square kilometres of western and northern Bosnia - about 8 percent of the country.
There were signs in the town of heavy fighting with whole streets full of gutted houses.
And signs that their residents had left in a hurry.
But there were also signs of an earlier devastation. The town fell to the Bosnian Serbs in 1992.
This mosque did not survive the Bosnian Serb occupation unscathed.
Not far away, an Orthodox Christian church stood undefiled.
The bridge over the town's river, the River Una, had also been destroyed.
In western Bosnia on Tuesday bad weather checked the allied Bosnian Croat advance.
The troops took advantage of the lull to check and move captured Bosnian Serb military hardware.
This pontoon bridge was captured from the Bosnian Serbs as were these tanks.
For an army that has born the brunt of four years of arms sanctions, the capture of these heavy weapons could make a difference to their fire power.
However, as Bosnian Muslim and Croat armed forces took a break from the recent offensive, Bosnian Serb rockets continued to pound Kljuc, a town that earlier fell to the Bosnian Army.
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