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Children wounded in Presevo grenade attack
B-92 Radio - August 24, 2003

PRESEVO -- Saturday – Two fifteen-year-old girls were wounded in one of a series of explosions last night in the courtyard of a cultural centre in the south Serbian town of Presevo.

The local representative of Belgrade’s Coordination Centre for Kosovo and South Serbia, Mica Markovic, told B92 that a bomb crater at the site of the explosion indicated that the weapon used had been either a hand grenade or a 40mm grenade launcher.

Because of the direction of the attack, said Markovic, it was possible that the adjacent police station had been the target.

One of the three grenades caused major property damage to a neighbouring house.

The two injured girls were sitting on a bench close to the cultural centre. One suffered wounds to the face and the other to the legs.

Officers of the Coordination Centre and the EU Monitoring Mission are supervising an investigation into the bombing.

Three grenades launched on Presevo, children injured
Tanjug - August 24, 2003

19:15 BELGRADE , Aug 24 (Tanjug) - In a terrorist attack on Presevo, Saturday evenign at 21.55, three grenades were launched, and in the attack were slightly injured two fifteen-year-olds, Radio-Television Vranje said on Sunday. Two grenades, it was confirmed to Tanjug in RTV Vranje, fell in the courtyard of the Cultural Center, while one fell on an adjacent house.

Member of the government coordination center for southern Serbia Mica Markovic said that it is not yet known what was the target of the terroroist attack, as in the vicinity of the Cultural center is a local police station, or from where the 40 mm missiles were fired, as the range of as automatic grenade launcher is one kilometer.

Major terrorist attacks now possible, Covic
Tanjug - August 24, 2003

20:30 BELGRADE , Aug 24 (Tanjug) - Coordination Center for Kosovo and Metohija president Nebojsa Covic warned on Sunday, reacting to the largest terrorist attack in Presevo, that major terrorist actions by the Albanian National Army (ANA) were now possible.

In a statement for BK Television, Covic assessed that the attack Saturday evening on Presevo, in which two fifteen-year-olds were slightly injured, was yet another attempt to destabilize the south of Serbia, but also evidence that the terrorists are panicking.