Battle erupts in Croatia

PAKRAC Croatia. May 4: Furious artillery and small arms battles erupted today in a pocket of central Croatia, retained by rebel Serbs after a lightning advance by government troops over UN truce lines earlier in the week. Die hard Krajina Serb units refusing to surrender after much of the separatist west cm Slavonia region was recaptured by government troops shelled the town of Pakrac on the edge of the pocket, un-ieashtiig heavy fighting witnesses said, reports Reuter.

150 massacred in Freetown

FREETOWN. May 4 Sierra Leones Revolutionary United Front rebels massacred about 150 people in an attack on the diamond centre of Koidu. state television reported. RUF rebels in the early hours of the 29th of April attacked Koidu town and massacred about 150 people the television said in a filmed report on Wednesday night. Witnesses fleeing to the capnai Freetown put the number of dead much higher, reports Reuter