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“This is the one most severe assault on the nation’s important infrastructure because the finish of the battle within the nation,” Kosovo’s Interior Minister Xhelal Sveçla informed reporters Saturday night.
According to the police, round 20 kilograms of explosives in a black bag had been positioned on a piece of the aqueduct in Zubin Potok and ignited by the use of a wired detonator.
“This just isn’t a random assault; it was well-organized and deliberate by knowledgeable group … aiming to maximise the harm completed to Kosovo and its residents,” Sveçla stated.
Eight individuals had been arrested on suspicion of planning and organizing the assault.
Kosovo stays essentially the most unstable space of the Balkans, with tensions consistently operating excessive between the nation, which declared independence in 2008, and its northern neighbor, Serbia.
In September of final yr, in the identical a part of the nation the place Friday’s explosion occurred, armed clashes erupted between native gunmen and the Kosovo police, with one police officer and three attackers being killed.
