Another violent Serb death in Kosovo Beta

Another violent Serb death in Kosovo
Beta - September 1, 2003

BELGRADE -- BELGRADE, Monday (Beta) – A Serb injured in a bomb attack in a village near Gnjilane last night has died in Camp Bondsteel, the US military base in Kosovo, an UNMIK spokesman said this morning.

Miomir Savic (35) was heavily wounded by a bomb apparently thrown at a Serb-owned shop in the village of Cernica and transferred to the US military hospital.

Another four people suffered slight wounds in the blast.

At the same time as the shop was bombed, a hand grenade was thrown into a children’s playground in a Serb-occupied part of the village.

KFOR investigators found a detonator and a large quantity of explosives in an abandoned Serb house nearby.

Six Serbs have been murdered in Cernica since the arrival of KFOR in 1999.

The village has a population of 200 Serbs and more than 3,000 Albanians.