The wife of a Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect was killed in a shoot-out when European Union (EUFOR) peacekeepers moved in to arrest her husband at their home on Thursday, doctors in Bosnia said. Suspect Dragomir Abazovic and the couple's 11-year-old son were also shot and injured in the morning raid, in a village near Rogatica in eastern Bosnia, police said. A police spokesman said there had been an exchange of gunfire but could give no details."Rada Abazovic died of kidney and abdominal wounds," a doctor in Foca hospital told Reuters by telephone. Hospital officials said the husband was treated for serious head injuries. He was placed under arrest.
EUFOR spokesman Jem Thomas confirmed the raid but gave no details. The peacekeeping force took over from NATO-led troops in 2005, 10 years after the Western allies first deployed in Bosnia. It was expected to issue a statement later, a source said. A spokesman for the Sarajevo cantonal prosecutor's office said EUFOR was acting on a warrant for Abazovic that the canton had issued in 1999, for crimes in the Rogatica area during the 1992-95 ethnic war between Serbs, Bosnian Muslims and Croats.