Shots fired at police in southern Serbia

Source: Tanjug

BUJANOVAC -- An unknown assailant fired multiple shots at a police checkpoint in the ethnic Albanian village of Dobrosin near Bujanovac around 3:00 CET on Thursday.

“The attack on police, i.e. police checkpoint at 3:00 in the morning is a terrorist act,” Vranje Police Administration Spokesman Dragan Stamenković has said.
He stressed that he could not give any more information about the attack.

The village of Dobrosin is located around 16 kilometers southwest of Bujanovac.

The so-called Liberation Army of the Preševo, Bujanovac and Medveđa (OVPBM, UCPMB) was founded in Dobrosin in the beginning of January 2000.

Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dačić said on Thursday that “we will not watch peacefully as somebody attack police officers” and confirmed that an ethnic Albanian terrorist group from Kosovo attacked the Dobrosin police.

He stressed that nobody was injured in the attack which took place only 100-150 meters from the administrative line with Kosovo.

The minister added that four policemen had been on duty at the station but that they had not been injured.

"Several short bursts were shot. Four policemen were on duty in the police station and fortunately, no one was injured," Dačić said, adding that another attack followed shortly, to which policemen responded with ten to 15 shots, thus ending the action.

“This is yet another proof that the pledges about the preservation of peace in this part of the territory are just talk,” he added.

“This is a drastic example of violation of agreements with the international community and another proof how much peace and stability are threatened. We will not watch peacefully as somebody attacks police officers in Serbia from across the administrative line. We are doing our job the way we have been doing it so far. I expect international officials to react to this incident,” the interior minister concluded.