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Nikola Bozic, the director of the Petnica Research Station has resigned, the head of the scientific education facility's managing board, Tanja Adnadjevic, told Serbian public broadcaster RTS on Wednesday.

The Public Prosecutor's Office in Valjevo, western Serbia, has opened a pre-investigation into allegations of sexual violence in the Petnica Science Centre, the Serbian daily Danas reported on Friday.

Deputy prosecutor Vladimir Davidovic said the Prosecution Office started work after reading about the acusations in the media.

Five women, former students at the Petnica Science Centre, near Valjevo, western Serbia, have claimed an employee subjected them to sexual harassment, the weekly magazine Vreme reported on Thursday.