Blast Kills Two in Montenegrin Resort Kotor

Kotor's mayor, Aleksandar Stjepcevic, urged the authorities to stop the violence in the Adriatic resort "as soon as possible" after a bomb blast killed two alleged members of drug gangs on Monday.

Goran Biskupovic, 28, an alleged member of the Skaljari gang, was killed when the bomb planted near his home in Muo neighborhood exploded. The blast also killed Milos Bosnjak, 25.

"I hope that the authorities will do everything in their power to make sure this kind of event in Kotor never happens again, to end this issue once for all," Stjepcevic told the local CdM portal.

Police blocked all the streets in the neighbourhood that was hit on Monday and said the special prosecution for organised crime had launched an investigation. 

A small resort with a medieval old town in the Boka Bay, which is on UNESCO's of world heritage list, Kotor made headlines in June after violence between criminal gangs caused the police to deploy anti-terrorist officers. 

In the last five months, Kotor has seen six armed clashes between rival drug clans and in April, Srdjan Vlahovic, who was reportedly linked to one of the narcotics kingpins, was murdered.

Five people have been killed since early 2015 in what the authorities believe were clashes between rival gangs - named the Skaljari and Kavac clans after Kotor neighbourhoods.

The Interior Ministry warned in June that the situation in Kotor was "alarming" and the authorities feared that the violence could jeopardise the tourist season in the town, which is visited each year by thousands of foreign tourists on luxury cruise ships. 

Kotor was also in the spotlight a decade ago after it was found that the Balkan drug baron Darko Saric had begun to invest huge sums of money there, mostly in the...