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Balkan Briefs
Another Srebrenica mass grave found in Bosnia
SARAJEVO (AFP) - A new mass grave believed to contain several dozen victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre has been discovered in eastern Bosnia, an official said yesterday. «The grave may contain several dozen of remains,» Murat Hurtic of Bosnia's Missing Persons Commission told AFP. Hurtic said the experts had so far uncovered 15 skeletons in the 3x8-meter (10x26-foot) grave located outside the village of Zeleni Jadar, about 15 kilometers (10 miles) south of Srebrenica. «We are pretty sure that these people were Srebrenica victims executed and previously buried elsewhere,» he said. Serbian prosecutors file charges against 15 Muslims BELGRADE (AP) - Serbia's state prosecutors yesterday filed criminal charges against 15 Muslim men from a tense southern region for alleged terrorist activity. Most of the indicted men were arrested in raids earlier this year in the Sandzak region bordering Kosovo where large caches of ammunition and bomb-making material were also discovered, the prosecution office said. The prosecutors believe the weapons were intended for «terrorist actions» by Muslim extremists against targets in the region. Train derails A land mine laid by Kurdish separatist rebels has derailed a freight train in eastern Turkey, while another in the same region injured four Turkish soldiers, officials said yesterday. Two drivers were injured in the attack late Thursday on the train at Bingol, which derailed the locomotive and five wagons. (AFP) Ocean's two The trial of two suspects accused of a spectacular jewelry heist in Japan resumed yesterday at Serbia's special court for organized crime. Djordjije Rasovic, 42, and Snezana Panajotovic, 24, were allegedly part of a gang dubbed «Pink Panther» that made off with $31.5 million (26 million euros') worth of jewels - including a 125-carat diamond necklace - from an upscale shop in Tokyo in March 2004. Arrested in Belgrade in 2005 on an international warrant, the two were charged here after Japan agreed that the trial could be held in Serbia. (AP) Van of fire An Albanian fishmonger set fire to his van in anger after the national soccer team lost to the visiting Dutch side, and firefighters failed to extinguish the blaze because someone had stolen their water. Vilson Alushi had vowed to burn his fish-delivery van if Albania failed to win a point against The Netherlands on Wednesday. Alushi duly doused his car with gasoline in the southern town of Delvine and watched indifferently as his friends alerted firefighters. They arrived promptly and unreeled the hose, only to find it was dry. It seems that residents nearby had drained the tank to help them cope with Albania's chronic water shortage. (Reuters)
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