KOSOVO: ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS STONE AMBULANCE HEADING FOR MITROVICA HOSPITAL
Tanjug - March 18, 2003

Zubin Potok, 18 March: Albanian extremists pelted with stones in the village of Zabare near Kosovska Mitrovica an ambulance vehicle of the medical centre in Zubin Potok.

The vehicle moving towards Kosovska Mitrovica, accompanied by UNMIK UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo police, was transporting a patient seriously injured in a traffic accident, Dr Lena Mitrova said.

She said that Albanian extremists smashed windows on the ambulance car, and UNMIK policemen did nothing to prevent them.

This is the third time in the past month that Albanian extremists in the village of Zabare stone a vehicle of the medical centre in Zubin Potok, which transports patients to Kosovska Mitrovica.

Mitrova said that they sent a protest note to UNMIK police and that from now on, in sign of revolt, the ambulance vehicle even when transporting urgently patients to Kosovska Mitrovica will use an old detour road, over Mt Kozarevo.

Serbs from Zubin Potok municipality, because of extremists who stone all vehicles with Serbs in the villages of Kosutovo and Zabare, have been using for four years now a detour macadam road.

Source: Tanjug news agency, Belgrade, in English 1140 gmt 18 Mar 03

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