GRENADE ATTACK ON SERB HOUSE IN KOSOVO TOWN, NO CASUALTIES
SRNA - October 26, 2003

Obilic, 26 October: Unknown persons threw a hand grenade at the house of Dragan Arsic in Cerska Street in Obilic last night at about 2030 (1830 gmt).

There were no casualties or injuries, but there was significant material damage to the house where six Serbs were present during the attack. Arsic's house is situated 20 metres away from the house where the Stolic three-member family were killed in May this year.

According to one of the locals, Mirceta Jakovljevic, five bombs were detonated on the first night of Ramadan in Oblic last year and because of this Serbs have this year strengthened precautionary measures at the start of this Islamic fasting month.

Obilic Serbs have protested to the Kfor (Kosovo Force) command for this area over the search for weapons in Serb houses in the village of Babin Most on Wednesday (22 October).

Two Serbs, Grujica and Novica Jovanovic, were arrested on this occasion.

Three days later Albanian extremists let off bombs, but Kfor refused to conduct a search of Albanian houses in a specific part of Obilic, especially in the part of Cerska Street where 14 Serbs still live totally surrounded by Albanians.

Source: SRNA news agency, Bijeljina, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 0757 gmt 26 Oct 03

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