Policeman wounded in blast in southern Serbia
A member of a multi-ethnic police unit in Bujanovac, southern Serbia, was seriously injured in an explosion.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Monday, February 15, 2010
Reports said that his wife, and two girls who were passing by, sustained minor wounds in the incident.
The bomb was planted under a Serbian police (MUP) vehicle, while the officer was identified as Blerim Mustafa, 39.
Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic confirmed the incident and said that Mustafa has a fractured leg and ribs, while his wife, and the girls, were not seriously hurt.
The car exploded several hundred meters away from the municipal building in this town, in an ethnic Albanian neighborhood. "There are indications that this was a terrorist attack," said Dacic.
The reason for this, according to the minister, is because the victims were "not only MUP members but also regular citizens".
Mustafa's brother Besnik also came under attack in 2001, when a four-year-old and its mother were seriously injured.
Besnik was at the time undergoing training to join the multi-ethnic unit where Blerim worked.
Locals said that Blerim was targeted on several other occasions, and by his fellow ethnic Albanians, disapproved of his choice of career.
Dacic said that the investigation would reveal the attackers' motives, but that he believed it was organized by Albanians who were against the multi-ethnic police.
