KOSOVO ALBANIANS STONE BUS CARRYING PROSPECTIVE SERB RETURNEES
BBC Monitoring International Reports - January 3, 2006 Tuesday

Text of report by Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA

Orahovac, 3 January: At 0850 [0750 gmt] this morning, a group of Albanians stoned a bus carrying 55 Serbs in the village of Malisevo near Orahovac, a SRNA correspondent has reported.

Guide Violeta Krstic told SRNA that the bus which was travelling on the Orahovac-Kosovska Mitrovica route was accompanied by members of the Kosovo police.

"In Malisevo a large group of Albanians showered the bus with bricks and stones. None of the passengers was injured, but bus windows were broken," Krstic said.

Serb buses ply the Orahovac-Kosovska Mitrovica route twice a week - on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Coordinator of the Orahovac municipality Dejan Baljosevic said that the attack this morning was planned, because the bus passengers were Serbs who visited their homes during New Year holidays intending to return in 2006.

Source: SRNA news agency, Bijeljina, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 0940 gmt 3 Jan 06

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