KOSOVO: SCHOOL IN SERB PART OF MITROVICA EVACUATED AFTER ANONYMOUS BOMB THREAT
FoNet - April 3, 2003

Kosovska Mitrovica, 3 April: A high vocational medical school in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica was evacuated today due to a false bomb threat.

Members of UNMIK UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo informed the director of the high vocational medical school, Vuk Djordjevic, that they had received an anonymous threat claiming that an explosive device had been planted in the school. The director of the high vocational medical school, Vuk Djordjevic, told FoNet that members of UNMIK police had searched the school and informed him that, according to an anonymous call, the explosion would be expected at 1400 1200 gmt but that, fortunately, this did not happen.

"We respected UNMIK's demand to evacuate the school as soon as possible as well as the boarding area where students are lodged, some 100 of them," Djordjevic said some time after 1200 gmt.

UNMIK representatives did not want to speak about details regarding the threat.

Source: FoNet news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian 1417 gmt 3 Apr 03

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