(11 May 1995) Natural Sound
Fierce artillery duels rocked a vital Serb supply corridor in north- eastern Bosnia Wednesday, prompting a rare announcement from the Serbs that shelling was so heavy it forced them to close the road.
Meanwhile, Croatian troops have crossed the border into northern Bosnia and are attacking the critical Posavina corridor - considered by many analysts key to the entire Yugoslav conflict..
This destruction to a Bosnian village in the Croat-held region of Orasje was caused by Bosnian Serbs.
They're trying to keep Croatian troops from positioning themselves here - just north of the critical Posavina corridor.
But they have had little success in stemming the Croatian tide.
These Croatian soldiers are in enemy territory.
They're moving in on the vital corridor linking Bosnian Serb holdings to Serb-controlled areas in Croatia and to Serbia proper.
The United Nations reported one-thousand shell explosions in three hours.
The corridor, through the town of Brcko near Bosnia's northern border with Croatia, is at its narrowest less than two miles wide.
It is considered by many analysts key to the entire Yugoslav conflict.
Without it, most of the Serb rebels in Croatia and all Serbs in western Bosnia could not receive supplies and would be largely surrounded by their Croatian and Bosnian government foes.
Wednesday's fighting was about 150 kilometers (90 miles) east of last week's Croatian offensive that seized a chunk of territory in that republic that Serbs had held since 1991.
It increased pressure on the Serbs, who lost the western Slavonia
region to the Croatian army last week.
Serbs responded with a strong attack on the Croat-held region of Orasje.
A Bosnian Croat officer said Bosnian government and Croat forces broke the offensive, which reportedly left four civilians wounded.
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