Three Kosovo LDK activists hurt in car explosion

BBCM, May 25, 2005 11:19 PM

Text of report by Kosovo Albanian Kosovapress news agency web site

Prishtina [Pristina], 23 May: Three people were injured while travelling by car when it exploded, police officials said today.

Spokesman Refki Morina of the Kosova [Kosovo] Police Service [ShPK] confirmed to KosovaLive that the incident happened today at 0720 hours [0520 gmt] on a transit road in Lipjan [Lipljane].

He said the three injured, after being offered emergency treatment at the Lipjan health clinic, were sent to the emergency clinic at the Prishtina University Clinic.

According to him, Artan Gashi, 23, was slightly injured, whereas Daut Gashi, born in 1949, and Sabri Krasniqi, also born in 1949, incurred serious injuries.

Morina said the regional unit for investigating traffic accidents and the serious crimes unit had so far been unable to identify the cause of the explosion.

The car in which the victims were travelling, a Volkswagen Jetta with license plates 1840-KS-400, is being examined in order to find the cause of the explosion, but no details are known so far.

Meanwhile, the Democratic League of Kosova [LDK] has condemned the explosion in Lipjan, where three of its activists, members of the LDK branch in Shtime [Stimlje], were injured. The LDK called on law enforcement and security authorities to investigate the circumstances that led to this explosion.

Source: Kosovapress news agency web site, Pristina, in Albanian 23 May 05

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