PALE (Bosnia), Feb 10: Nato launched a dawn raid on a house of a Bosnian Serb suspected of helping top war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic and seized some material for further investigation, its spokesman in Bosnia said on Saturday.

US troops, backed by European Union peacekeepers, sealed off parts of Karadzic’s wartime stronghold of Pale, east of Sarajevo, and searched the home of his wartime commander Radomir Kojic, Derek Chappel said.

“We have made a seizure of items that we consider to be of interest. We took away four to five boxes of stuff from the house,” Chappel said after the operation was completed. He declined to give further details on what was taken.

He said the search was conducted to try to find additional information about Radovan Karadzic’s support network and in an effort to determine his location.

Chappel said that six occupants of the house did not resist.

“Everything went smoothly,” he added.—Reuters