BELGRADE (AFP) - Serbian police arrested two people yesterday as they tried to close the net around fugitive Bosnian war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic, on the run since 1995, a media report said. The Beta news agency quoted several sources as saying the unidentified men, apparently brothers, were detained in a large-scale police operation in the western town of Valjevo. The report could not be independently confirmed. It said special police took the men from a building inhabited by military families.

TIRANA (AP) - Explosions at army weapon depots in southern Albania on Saturday killed an army officer and injured at least four others, Defense Ministry and police officials reported. The explosions started at about 1 p.m. in six army weapon depots holding ammunition that was to be destroyed. It was unclear what triggered the explosions in the village of Dhemblan, 180 kilometers (112 miles) south of the capital, Tirana. Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Pellumb Qazimi said four army officers were injured, one seriously, and one was missing.

A small Russian-made plane made an emergency landing on an open field in southern Turkey, injuring five people on board, aviation authorities said yesterday. The Antonov AN-2 from Moldova had made a stopover in the city of Izmir in western Turkey and was bound for the southern city of Adana late Saturday when it was forced to land on a field near the town of Mut, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) west, the Turkish airports’ authority said in a statement. Five crew on board were injured, the statement said. (AP)

A 5-year-old boy on Saturday accidentally shot his mother dead in the garden of their home in central Bosnia after mistaking his father’s illegally owned wartime pistol for a toy, authorities said. Zijada Selimovic, 34, was shot in the heart by her son, Mesud, and died instantly, said prosecutor Ljubo Tokic of the town of Donji Vakuf, where the shooting took place. “This is the biggest tragedy in this region since the end of the war,” Tokic said. The boy found the gun in the house and took it out to the garden where his mother was and “apparently wanted to play cops and robbers when the pistol went off,” Tokic said. (AP)