Two more Serbs placed in custody over Banjska clashes

PRISTINA - Two more Serbs suspected of involvement in Sunday's deadly clashes between a group of local Serbs and the so-called Kosovo Police in the Banjska village near Zvecan in the north of Kosovo-Metohija were placed in one-month custody by the basic court in Pristina on Tuesday.

Pristina-based Reporteri said the two were Blagoje Spasojevic and Dusan Maksimovic.

In a statement to the press, Maksimovic's lawyer said his defence planned to appeal the decision.

On Monday, the Pristina court also placed a man identified with the initials V T in one-month custody on suspicion of involvement in the Banjska clashes.

Reporteri said his hearing had taken place in a Pristina clinic where he was receiving medical treatment.

All three men are suspected of committing "terrorist acts" and "grave criminal offences against the constitutional order and...