Serb Fires on U.N. Workers, Killing 1

A man armed with an assault rifle fired on a U.N. vehicle in Vukovar, the last Serb-held area of Croatia, killing a Belgian corporal and seriously wounding two other U.N. workers. U.N. sources said the gunman was a young Serb with a criminal record who was arrested after the shooting. The Belgian, whose name was not released, is the first member of the U.N. peacekeeping force to be killed in Eastern Slavonia since January 1996, when the United Nations began supervising the peaceful restoration of Croatian rule there. Although violence has increased in the area ahead of March 16 municipal elections, authorities said the shooting did not appear to be politically motivated.