KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Three Serbs from Caglavica and Laplje Selo in Kosovo and Metohija were the latest victims of violence and plunder, the International Press Center of the Coordination Center for Kosmet in Kosovska Mitrovica announced on Friday.

       A little after 2 a.m. early Friday morning, a group of armed ethnic Albanians stopped Slavisa Stolic, a Serb, who was driving home. The attackers evicted Stolic from his car and stole his Golf, the statement said.

       Minutes later, ethnic Albanian robbers drove another Golf, owned by Professor Dejan Mitic, from his courtyard in Laplje Selo to the nearest gas station. There, they demanded from attendant Zoran Dragovic to fill up the tank and, afterwards, pistol-butted him  on the head. Luckily, Dragovic managed to escape to the first Serb house and call the police.

       According to the International Press Center, this morning Dragovic identified one of the attackers from photographs in the files of the Kosovo police in Gracanica.

       The Center said that recently there has been a rise in intimidation, siezures of Serb property, kidnappings and death threats to the Kosovo-Metohija Serbs.