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Two Policemen Killed, Two Injured in Southern Serbia
Terrorists attacked a police patrol unit in the safety zone in southern Serbia Friday night, killing two Serbian policemen and wounding two others, the Tanjug news agency reported Saturday.
The ambush occurred late Friday in the ethnic Albanian- inhabited village of Muhovac, 11 kilometers west of the Serbian town of Vranje.
The attack was the most serious violence since May, when Yugoslav forces regained control of the buffer zone in southern Serbia after ethnic Albanian rebels pulled out under an agreement.
Nebojsa Covic, who is in charge of coordinating the solution to the Kosovo issue and deputy prime minister of the Serbian government, rushed to the spot and strongly condemned the terrorist act. He vowed to bring the terrorists to account with all means.
Chemal Dzzemailji, a representative of the local residents, also denounced the violence. He assumed that the attack was done by outsiders since the villagers of Muhovac have been in cooperative terms with the Serbian police.
Erik Moris, special envoy for the Balkans from the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, issued a statement on Saturday condemning the ambush of the Serbian policemen as a " felony."
He said that the crime posed a severe threat to the hard-won stability and fragile peace in the safety zone.
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