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MERDARE - Patriarch Porfirije of the Serbian Orthodox Church on Wednesday began a visit to Kosovo-Metohija, where he will celebrate Christmas with Serbs living in the province.

Accompanied by a delegation of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the patriarch will first visit the Patriarchate of Pec and then also Visoki Decani, Gracanica and other monasteries.

The Peja/Pec Basic Prosecution charged two officials of the Kosovo water supply company Hidrodrini in Peja/Pec, related to water poisoning in Decan/Decani in July 2021.

Prosecutor Dorjan Juniku confirmed on Monday that they were charged with involvement in the poisoning of around 1,500 people in the Decan/Decani area.

Hospital in Pec confirmed for Klan Kosova that two students and a bus driver were killed in the shooting.
The hospital said that the number of injured is unknown, writes Kosovo online but that the ambulance is bringing them from Decani to Pec.
The police have not yet confirmed these allegations, but in the first report, they told the media that two people were injured.

Kosovo police have arrested a man named as Driton Podrimqaku after a citizen from the western Kosovo town of Peja/ Pec reported to BIRN about being the victim of usury - defined in Kosovo law as taking advantage of a person's economic circumstances to extract disproportionate services or rates of interest on loans.

The police also arrested two suspects: 34-year-old N.E. from Novi Pazar, and 40-year-old M.B. from Pec.

They are suspected of distributing high quality heroin in the territory of Serbia, most often in Belgrade.

The Serbian church will change its name to incorporate the words 'Patriarchate of Pec' as part of its new constitution, which should be adopted in May, Serbian daily newspaper Vecernje Novosti reported on Tuesday.