The wife of a Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect was killed in a shootout when European Union Eufor peacekeepers moved in to arrest her husband at their home today, doctors 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 said. Hospital officials said her husband was treated for serious head injuries. He was placed under arrest.
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.