Serbian TV reports from Kosovo shooting scene - motive of attack not robbery
BBC Monitoring Europe (Political) -  May 11, 2006 Thursday

Text of report by Serbian TV on 11 May

[Presenter] Esteemed viewers, two Serb youths, employees of a petrol station in Grabovac near Kosovska Mitrovica, were seriously wounded when an unidentified attacker this morning fired automatic weapons at them.

[Reporter] Both young men are seriously wounded. Complicated surgery lasted for nearly four hours. Jablan Jeftic is in an especially critical condition.

[Chief Physician Radomir Jankovic] He was bleeding massively and was placed on an operating table in a state of serious shock without a pulse and with both his thighs wounded. On his left thigh, both his femoral artery and vein were fully cut off, ripped up.

[Interviewer] What is the health condition of both patients now?

[Jankovic] They are still in a critical condition. It would be thankless now to give any prognostication, given that they are still under anaesthesia. They practically left the operating room around 0700 [0500 gmt].

[Reporter] The attack took place this morning around 0330 [0130 gmt]. The attacker, we have learnt, wore a balaclava. He came out of the dark and fired shots with automatic weapons.

[Radasin Pavlovic, captioned as owner of the petrol station] When I arrived I was simply overwhelmed. Milojica [Jovan Milosevic] was lying in blood against the station's middle wall and he told me: I am all right, run to find Jablan.

I found Jablan behind the petrol station, lying on the concrete facing the ground. He just told me: Old man, give me some help.

[Reporter] The attackers did not take any money from the petrol station or anything else for that matter, which indicates that robbery was not the motive for this attack.

Source: RTS 1 TV, Belgrade, in Serbian 0800 gmt 11 May 06

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