Explosive devices were thrown Monday at the house of a prominent Serb journalist in tense Serb-majority northern Kosovo, which caused material damage but no injuries, media and officials said.
“The explosions occurred after midnight (2200 GMT) in the same street in the town of Zvecan,” in northern Kosovo, police spokesman Besim Hoti told AFP.

Hoti said no one had been injured in the blasts, which also targeted a second house, in which “two vehicles and a restaurant premises were damaged.”

An investigation underway, Hoti said, refusing to speculate on a possible motive for the blasts.

Local media reported that one of the attacked houses belonged to the editor-in-chief of Serb-run Radio Mitrovica, Caslav Milisavljevic.

This is the second such attack on his house, after a blast in July, which also injured no one.

Political tensions run high in northern Kosovo, populated mostly by ethnic Serbs who do not recognise the independence that Pristina authorities proclaimed in February 2008.

The area has been the site of regular clashes between ethnic Albanians — who make up the majority of Kosovo’s population of two million — and the Serb minority ever since the 1999 war that ended with a NATO air campaign ousting Serbia security forces.

September 27, 2010
AFP

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