Bosnia - SFOR soldiers killed in shooting incident

(23 May 1997) T/I: 10:41:25


Two German soldiers serving with SFOR, the NATO-led stabilisation force in Bosnia, died in a shooting accident in Sarajevo on Friday (23/5). A third was seriously injured. NATO says a 20mm cannon fired several rounds from a patrol vehicle and hit an armoured personnel carrier in front of it. The vehicles were preparing to leave the Rajlovac camp on the outskirts of Sarajevo.

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RAJLOVAC BARRACKS, 10KM SOUTH OF SARAJEVO, BOSNIA 23/05
IFOR vehicles along road;
VS of outside the Rajlovac barracks where incident occured;
CU sign SFOR base;
SFOR vehicles into barracks;
various soldiers;
APC backing out;
SOT (english) Major Tony White, spokesman for SFOR in Sarajevo: The accident involved 2 German APCs in which a rear APC's twenty millemetre cannon misfired and rounds entered the APC to the front. There were 3 injuries. Tragically two of the soldiers in the front APC were killed and the third is only slightly injured. Right now investigators are at the scene trying to figure out what happened and it will take some time to figure out what happened today.
Vehicles arriving at base;
SOT (german) Lieutenant Colonel Dieter Venjarerden explaining what happened: In the morning we had a shooting accident. A 20mm cannon fired five to six rounds hitting the Fuchs (armoured vehicle) in front of it.
APC along road;

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