ONE PERSON SERIOUSLY WOUNDED IN DRIVE-BY SHOOTING IN KOSOVO
February 22, 2003 - SRNA

Kosovska Vitina, 22 February: Dragan Cokic, 29, was seriously wounded this evening in Mogila near Kosovska Vitina when unknown perpetrators fired shots from automatic weapons on a shop owned by Slobodan Nojkic.

Cokic was hit by two bullets in his chest and after being treated by paramedics he was taken to a hospital in Vranje. Eye witnesses said that they noticed two people in a grey Audi who stopped in front of the shop, fired shots and fled in the direction of the Albanian part of Mogila.

The Kosovo police arrived on the scene soon after the drive-by shooting followed by the Kfor NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo members.

The investigation is under way.

Source: SRNA news agency, Bijeljina, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 2006 gmt 22 Feb 03

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