SERBS "DISTRESSED" AS SOURCE FOR MINERAL WATER
PLANT BLOWN UP IN EAST KOSOVO
BBC Monitoring International Reports - May 4, 2006 Thursday
Text of report by Montenegrin Mina news agency
Kosovska Mitrovica, 4 April: Last night unidentified perpetrators blew up the
source of mineral water in the village of Klokot in the municipality of Vitina
[in eastern Kosovo], the Coordination Centre in Kosovska Mitrovica has said in a
statement.
According to the statement, explosives were planted last night at around 2100
[1900 gmt], disregarding the fact that the mineral water source is around 100
metres away from the nearest houses in the village and just 50 metres away from
a Kosovo Police outpost.
According to Vitina municipality coordinator Nenad Kojic, houses did not sustain
damage but the Serb population was enormously distressed.
Around 1,300 Serbs live in the village of Klokot but over the last couple of
years Albanians have moved to the outskirts of the village and have been buying
up Serb land.
Up until 1999, a big mineral water plant was operational in Klokot. The plant
was purchased by an Albanian man several years ago within the privatization
process.
The blowing up of the source will hamper water supply for the local population
as well as the work of the Klokot mineral water plant, the statement says.
Source: Mina news agency, Podgorica, in Serbian
0946 gmt 4 May 06
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