KAMENICA (AP) - Forensic experts working at a mass grave have exhumed remains of 454 Bosnian Muslims killed by Serb forces in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, officials said yesterday. The site is the ninth mass grave discovered in the village of Kamenica in eastern Bosnia. Another 100 bodies are expected to be exhumed at the site, said Emir Ibrahimovic, a prosecutor from the city of Tuzla. Most of the remains recovered - those of 394 victims - were incomplete.

BANJA LUKA (AFP) - Switzerland is to extradite to Bosnia seven former Islamic volunteers who fought during the Balkan country's 1992-1995 war, a local daily reported yesterday. «Switzerland forwarded us a written request that Bosnia receive several persons of Afro-Asian origin who currently live there,» Dragan Mektic, a Security Ministry official, told the Nezavisne Novine daily. «We are verifying their passports and their stays in Bosnia,» he said, adding that those persons were staying in Switzerland illegally.

Clash. Two rival Muslim groups clashed in front of a mosque in a volatile southern Serbian region, leaving four people injured, police said. The clash in Novi Pazar, the administrative center of the Sandzak region, was between Muslims who support a local cleric and those who favor one appointed by the Muslim leadership in Belgrade. Two men were wounded by gunfire, one in the neck, during the incident in front of Novi Pazar's main Altum Alem Mosque, police said. (AP)

A Croatian court yesterday acquitted a British national and a former Bosnian Croat general accused of smuggling more than half a ton of cocaine in 1999, a court spokesman said. Paul Dexter Farrow and Ivan Andabak were acquitted by the court in the northern town of Rijeka for lack of evidence, spokesman Zoran Srsen said. The two had been accused of smuggling 660 kilos (1,452 pounds) of cocaine worth some 60 million dollars (42 million euros) from Ecuador to Gambia via the Rijeka port. (AFP)

A team of Turkish experts harshly criticized a controversial archaeological dig in Jerusalem undertaken by Israel, according to a report published yesterday in the Turkish daily Today's Zaman. Turkish experts visited the site because the Ayyubid, Mameluke and Ottoman dynasties ruled in the area successively between the 12th century and the beginning of the 20th century. According to the Turkish team, «the ongoing activities give the impression that they are a planned and systematically implemented effort which aims to destroy the values associated with cultural assets and the sources of information of these cultures,» the English-language daily said, citing the actual report. (AFP)