Peacekeepers’ failed bid to capture Karadzic leaves priest near death

BRITISH troops failed in yet another bid to capture the world’s most wanted suspected war criminal in a Bosnian raid that left a priest and his son near death yesterday.

Amid bursts of gunfire, the soldiers encircled a church and a rectory in the Pale stronghold of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. The targeted building was the home of three Serb Orthodox priests.

The peacekeepers, backed by local police, sealed off the area and bursts of machine-gun fire were heard, along with an explosion.