Bomb blast near Kosovo: two injured
Two persons living next door to flats housing families of Serb police were injured in an explosion in the southern Serbian town of Presevo early Tuesday morning.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Tuesday, July 14, 2009
The incident occurred in the Serb-populated part of the town which is mainly populed by ethnic Albanians and is located just a few kilometers from Kosovo.
The casualties in this explosion are A.S., a woman aged 43, and a thriteen-year-old boy, D.H., doctor Sabit Sahiti, director of the Presevo Medical Center.
The two patients, who sustained minor injuries, received emergency treatment in Presevo and were then transferred to the Surgery Department of the Medical Center in Vranje, Sahiti said, specifying that the injuries were located on their arms and legs and most probably inflicted by glass fragments.
A.S. lives in the building near which the blast occurred, and the boy D.H. lives in the neighborhood, the doctor said.
"The building near the railway station in Presevo where the explosion occurred last night, has been secured and special anti-sabotage teams are establishing whether any explosives are left over," said the duty District Court investigative judge in Vranje, Stanisa Mihajlovic.
He added that the investigation would begin once the anti-sabotage teams had cleared the ground, after which the details of the explosion would become known.
This incident comes after last week's attacke on a Serb genadarmerie patrol in the region, in which two Serb policemen were injured.
Meanwhile, Serb police announced on Tuesday that it had conducted several operations aimed at cutting the trafficking of arms from Kosovo into the Albanian-populated parts of southern Serbia.
