Croat Rioting in Bosnia Injures 25

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnian Croats stoned NATO peacekeepers, overturned vehicles and attacked employees of international organizations Friday after police and troops seized a major bank used by Bosnian Croat nationalists seeking to form their own ministate.

Twenty-one peacekeepers--including two Americans--were slightly injured in the melee in the southern city of Mostar, NATO spokesman Lt. Lars Anderson said. The others injured were from Italy, France, Spain and Morocco, he said.

Four Bosnian civilians also were injured, Mostar Radio said.

The trouble began when U.N. and Bosnian police, backed by North Atlantic Treaty Organization troops, seized the Mostar-based bank Hercegovacka Banka and 10 branches nationwide.