The fear was that the men were killed by Serbian militias, and perhaps some were.
The Serbian militia are said to be protecting Serbian civilians who have been brought back into the town.
The officials did not say what demands the Serbian militia made, but said that no one in the convoy appeared to have been harmed.
They were being protected by armed Serbian militia, many of them within the exclusion zone.
He was at the end of a 13-day odyssey that had been blocked at key points by Serbian militias.
Bosnia's gamble is that the Serbian militias are now exhausted and overextended.
His newly strengthened army might be able to win limited local engagements against isolated Serbian militias.
When the Serbian militias arrived, Suljo hid in the hills.
There was no exchange in 1992 because of shelling of the city by the Serbian militia.
There are, at the very least, rumours that Serbian militias are up to their old tricks again.