FIFTY SERB TRAIN PASSENGERS ESCORTED TO SAFETY AFTER BOMB ATTACK IN KOSOVO

BBC Monitoring International Reports - May 8, 2005

Text of report by Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA

Lipljan, 8 May: At around 1935 [1735 gmt] this evening, an unknown perpetrator threw a bomb at a train travelling on the Kosovska Mitrovica-Lipljan route, in the vicinity of a Serbian cemetery at the approaches to Lipljan.

The bomb ricocheted off the train window and exploded, but there were no casualties.

Serb representative from Lipljan Slavko Janicijevic told SRNA that Kfor [NATO-led Kosovo Force] immediately stopped the train in which approximately 50 Serbian passengers were travelling back home from Kosovska Mitrovica. The passengers were then escorted by the Kosovo police service to the Serb part of Lipljan.

An investigation is under way; the bomb attack caused even more disquiet among the remaining Serbs in the central part of Kosovo as it comes in the wake of an incident that took place at the approaches to the village of Donja Brnjica near Pristina last night when unknown attackers opened gun-fire at a car in which three Serbian youths travelled.
 

Source: SRNA news agency, Bijeljina, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 1800 gmt 8 May 05

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