Shots fired from Kosovo at Serbian police
BBC Monitoring Europe (Political) - January 28, 2006 Saturday
Text of report by Serbian independent news agency FoNet
Bujanovac, 28 January: Unknown persons carried out an armed attack on a police
installation in the village of Dobrosin in the Bujanovac municipality yesterday
[as received] at about 0450 [0350 gmt], the Vranje SUP [Secretariat of Internal
Affairs] said this morning.
The statement says that the attackers came from the direction of Podgradje
village in the Gnjilane municipality [in Kosovo], near the administrative line
[between Serbia and Kosovo] and from a distance of about 100 metres fired a
number of shots at the police installation.
One bullet pierced the sheet-metal police installation entering the kitchen
where it ricocheted around a few times.
No-one was injured in the attack.
By the authority of the district court investigating judge, an investigation was
carried out by Vranje SUP members, as well as by Kfor [NATO-led Kosovo Force]
Multinational Brigade East members, along with the participation of the 78th
Motorized Brigade of the Serbia-Montenegro Army.
On 21 November 2000, armed [ethnic] Albanians from the Liberation Army of
Bujanovac, Presevo and Medvedja [OVPMB; UCPMB in Albanian] entered the village
of Dobrosin from the Kosovo side and brutally killed three policemen.
Source: FoNet news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian
0956 gmt 28 Jan 06
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