YUGOSLAVIA: UNKNOWN ATTACKERS FIRE THREE GRENADE ROUNDS INTO SERB DOMINATED NORTHERN MITROVICA

Record ID: 355737

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: UNKNOWN ATTACKERS FIRE THREE GRENADE ROUNDS INTO SERB DOMINATED NORTHERN MITROVICA
  • Date: 14th July 2000
  • Summary: MITROVICA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA (JULY 14, 2000) (REUTERS-ACCESS ALL) (NIGHT) 1. VARIOUS OF SOUTHERN PART OF MITROVICA DURING THE CLASHES FURTHER NORTH/SEALED OFF EXIT/ VEHICLES WAITING TO DRIVE OUT OF THE CITY/VEHICLES BEING CHECKED (4 SHOTS) 0.33 2. SLV: FRENCH AND GENDARMERIE CHECK POINT 0.37 3. MV: SOLDIERS CHECKING VEHICLES 0.50 4
  • Embargoed: 29th July 2000 13:00
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  • Location: MITROVICA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA
  • City:
  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVA7X9A6TZ1KJ779VDTMR8N10K9A
  • Story Text: Attackers have fired three rounds of grenades into the
    Serb-dominated north of the ethnically divided Kosovo city
    Mitrovica. French peacekeeping forces have been deployed along
    the Ibar river, which divides the city, in an attempt to
    discover who fired at the northern sector.


    The rounds appeared to come from the ethnic
    Albanian-dominated south of the city and brought an angry
    crowd of hundreds of Serbs onto the streets, according to
    Lieutenant-Colonel Philippe Eriau, a spokesman for the French
    forces.

    Speaking on Friday (July 14) evening Eriau described the
    day's events.

    "After a completely calm day, three grenades - rifle
    grenades in fact - were fired from the south of Mitrovica to
    the north, towards the area of the Dolce Vita Cafe on the
    north edge of the bridge," he said.

    Eriau told Reuters that several bursts of automatic
    weapons fire, apparently from the north, were heard soon after
    the attack, which took place around 10:15 p.m.

    A further explosion close to an ethnic Albanian pocket
    in the north of the city was reported shortly after midnight,
    he added.

    There were no immediate reports of any casualties from
    the grenade attack.

    In an attempt to discover who fired at the northern
    sector, French forces have deployed soldiers along the Ibar
    river, which divides the city.

    On Saturday (July 15), following the previous night's
    curfew, soldiers guarding the main bridge of Mitrovica checked
    the documents of drivers as police cars passed from the north
    to the south of the city for the morning patrol.

    DB/RL
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