BUCHAREST (AFP) - A total of 32 people have died in Romania since June 19 as a result of a weeklong heat wave, the health ministry said in a statement yesterday. The latest deaths included two women, aged 65 and 69, who died of heart attacks in northwestern Satu Mare province and in Bacau, in the northeast of the country. Authorities reported that another person, who had «probably spent too much time in the sun,» had died at a spa center in southeastern Constanta.

SARAJEVO (AP) - German diplomat Christian Schwarz-Schilling said yesterday he will hand over his post as Bosnia's top international official next week confident that his successor would be able to help the country overcome its current political deadlock and move the reform process forward. «My successor, Miroslav Lajcak, is an enormously capable and dynamic individual. I am confident that he will be able to move forward,» Schwarz-Schilling said. Schwarz-Schilling was supposed to be Bosnia's last international administrator, an ad hoc position created under the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords to ensure its provisions were implemented until local forces were strong enough to run the country themselves.

A wartime Muslim brigade commander, who had been tried for murder of a Serb civilian, was shot dead in downtown Sarajevo overnight, police said yesterday. Ramiz Delalic, called Celo, who commanded one of the Sarajevo brigades while the city was besieged by Bosnian Serbs during the 1992-95 war, was shot several times around midnight, police said. He was alone when an unknown perpetrator fired several bullets at him, an officer said. Delelic was on trial for years for the murder of an elderly Serb wedding guest in Sarajevo only days before the outbreak of the war, which in the end claimed almost 100,000 lives. (AFP)

Two Bosnians were killed in two separate explosions in the north when they detonated land mines left over from the country's 1992-95 war, a Sarajevo daily reported yesterday. One man died when he stepped on a land mine in a forest near Tuzla, while another was killed when he entered a marked minefield in Brcko, the Dnevni Avaz newspaper reported. (AFP)

A Turkish prosecutor accused two men - one of them a fire-eating entertainer - of causing the death of a British girl and asked a court yesterday to sentence them to up to 15 years in prison, an attorney said. They are accused of causing the death of 6-year-old Eden Galvani, who burned to death at a Turkish resort. Galvani was killed last August in an explosion during a Tahir Akalin's fire-eating show in the resort town of Didim. Six others were injured. Galvani died of burns. (AP)