BELGRADE TV SHOWS KOSOVO CAFE BLAST AFTERMATH, SERBS WANT BRIDGE CLOSED
BBC Monitoring International Reports - August 26, 2006, Saturday

Text of report by Serbian TV on 26 August

[Presenter] Let us recall the news from the beginning of Dnevnik [RTS main news bulletin]. A hand grenade exploded in Dolce Vita cafe in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica around 1900 [1700 gmt]. As our correspondent has reported six persons were injured, including a Canadian policemen working with the United Nations. An ethnic Albanian young man ran across the bridge from the southern [Albanian-populated] part of town and lobbed the bomb into the cafe garden. Eyewitnesses said that members of the Kosovo Police Service [KPS] were on the bridge while the young man was running across it. Kfor [NATO-led Kosovo Force] troops came to the scene as late as half an hour after the explosion, and our correspondent reported that around 300 Serbs already gathered in protest in the area near the bridge in whose vicinity Dolce Vita Cafe is located.

We have received first footage from the scene.

[Footage broadcast by Zvecan-based TV Most shown, smashed glass, shrapnel, holes in the door]

[Nebojsa Jovic, captioned as the chairman of the SNV [Serb National Council] for Kosovska Mitrovica] The Serb National Council will do everything it can to keep the situation under control, because, as I have said, we do not want any incidents, but I think that a decision has already been made. It is clear that the bridge can no longer remain open [for civilian traffic], at least not until that infamous [Kosovo] status is solved, because it is evident that there is no security on the bridge.

Source: RTS 1 TV, Belgrade, in Serbian 1758 gmt 26 Aug 06

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