BOSNIA: 2ND FRENCH PEACE KEEPER KILLED IN SARAJEVO

(15 Apr 1995) Natural Sound

A second French peace keeper has been killed in Sarajevo in 48 hours as the head of France's armed forces arrived to pick up the body of a soldier killed earlier.

The second death happened minutes before the plane carrying France's Armed Forces Chief of Staff Admiral Jacques Lanxade landed in Sarajevo.

Both peacekeepers were shot by snipers.

A sniper killed 25 year old Antoine Hardoin, a UN French soldier, today as he helped build a barricade to try to prevent Serb gunmen shooting at civilians on Sarajevo's Sniper alley. He was hit in the chest while at the controls of a fork lift.

UN soldiers were installing the screens along Sniper Alley. after a French soldier was killed yesterday by a sniper's bullet near the airport.

Sniper screens block exposed cross roads on the main street because of the large number killed here during the war.

Protection screens were removed from the streets of Sarajevo in March last year after the UN said it would call on NATO air support if civilians were targeted.

The UN says it has not been able to determine which side fired the shot that killed the French soldier yesterday in the suburb Drobinja. And they are still investigating who fired the bullet that killed Antoine hardoin today.

Just twenty minutes after the he died a plane carrying the Chief of Staff of the French Armed Forces Admiral Jacques Hardoin landed at Sarajevo airport.

Admiral Lanxade came to Sarajevo to pick up the body of the soldier killed yesterday.

He met Herve Gobilliard, UN commander for Sector Sarajevo, and General Rupert Smith UN Commander for Bosnia and Herzegovina. French Defence Minister Francois Leotard is also expected in Sarajevo today.

At least twelve people have been killed and 40 wounded in Sarajevo in the past two weeks, many of them by sniper bullets.

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