DOBROSIN (AFP) - A Serbia-Montenegro army base has come under mortar attack in an area dominated by restive ethnic Albanians, officials said yesterday. There were no injuries or significant property damage from the attack late Sunday near the southern village of Dobrosin, close to the provincial border with Kosovo, a Defense Ministry official said. Three 60-millimeter mortars were fired at the base from an unknown source but missed their target. “This is a classic terrorist attack,” said Defense Minister Boris Tadic, who visited Dobrosin yesterday with Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Branko Krga and Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic.

SARAJEVO (AP) - Forensic experts continued excavating the largest mass grave found so far in Bosnia after dozens of remains were carefully removed from the site last week, officials said yesterday. “We removed 72 bodies last week but we weren’t able to remove all the remains found so far,” said Murat Hurtic, the regional head of the Muslim Commission for Missing Persons. The grave is believed to contain the remains of up to 700 people — mostly Muslims killed by Bosnian-Serb forces in and around the eastern town of Zvornik at the beginning of Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.

Workers struggled yesterday to remove four railroad cars containing highly toxic materials that overturned in central Belgrade, while the authorities sought to allay fears of an ecological disaster. The tanks carrying concentrated vinyl chloride from Ukraine to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia were passing through Belgrade’s main railway station, near the capital’s center, when the cars derailed and overturned on Sunday. “There have been no leaks and we have everything under control,” insisted Srdja Popovic, an environment official in the Serbian government. (AP)

A group of 145 soldiers left Bulgaria yesterday for Iraq, where they will work as peacekeepers. The unit is the first part of a 500-man infantry battalion that will serve in the city of Kerbala under the command of the Polish forces in central and southern Iraq. (AP)