Man dies in Serb enclave with cut off phones

The phones operated by Belgrade-based providers in enclaves inhabited by Serbs south of the Ibar River were cut off on Sunday and Monday by the Kosovo Albanian authorities in Pristina.

According to the announcement yesterday, the 76-year-old man, identified with his initials M.D., died on Tuesday around 17:10 CET.

Gracanica Health Center Director Radmila Trajkovic said that the ambulance team, once it finally arrived, was not able to save the man's life.

"His daughter came to our health institution upset, saying that her father was in a very serious condition and that he had been unable to call the ambulance all night. By the way, he was suffering from angina, he had cerebral infarction earlier and he was in a serious chronic condition, but on September 27 his condition acutely worsened," she said.

"Our team then went to the scene where they found the patient in a life threatening condition. In other words, we were only able to go there on September 28 somewhere around 17:00, when his daughter found him, and give him medical attention. Our ambulance team unfortunately did not succeed, he fell into a coma yesterday and unfortunately died," Trajkovic explained.

Pristina authorities took to destroying Telekom Srbija base stations south of the Ibar River this week, claiming that the company did not have the license to operate in Kosovo.
The Serbian telecommunications company has rejected these claims.

A three-year-old Serb girl was hurt in an explosion that happened on Tuesday in the northern part of the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica.
The child was hurt inside her home, when the device exploded on the roof of the apartment building.

Doctors said that the child had an injury to her knee and that her life was not threatened.

Kosovo police spokesperson Besim Hoti told Tanjug on Wednesday that the explosion that destroyed a cell site belonging to the mobile carrier Ipko, which services Albanians, was caused by 200 grams of TNT.

The site, located on the roof of an apartment building in northern Kosovska Mitrovica, was destroyed at 20:40 CET on Tuesday, Hoti noted.

The roof space was rented out by a local Serb who works for KPS, it has emerged.

His neighbors, who spent the night out in the street, said that they asked him repeatedly to remove the antenna, but that he refused.