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SUBOTICA - A new plant of German car part maker Continental was opened in Subotica, northern Serbia, on Tuesday.

Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic, who spoke with the plant's management before the opening ceremony, said the factory, which will hire over 500 people, was another proof the government kept every promise made to investors, and to the benefit of the Serbian citizens.

A new plant of German car part maker Continental was opened in Subotica, northern Serbia, on Tuesday.

Two boys, aged five and eight, and a 45-year-old man lost their lives early on Friday in a traffic accident on the Novi Sad-Subotica highway.

The website 021.rs is reporting that the crash happened at around 01:30 CET, and that the victims died on the spot.

SUBOTICA - Two Pakistani nationals, settled in the Reception Centre in Subotica, attacked on Monday an underage girl and tried to rape her.

At that moment a man was passing by and prevented the rape.

The Basic Court in Subotica has ordered two Pakistani citizens held in detention for up to 30 days.

They were arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting an underage girl in this northern Serbian town.

SUBOTICA - Serbian and Croatian Foreign Ministers Ivica Dacic and Miro Kovac on Friday reiterated a willingness for further improvement of relations between their two countries, but noted that disagreements remained over Serbia's law on universal jurisdiction over war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia.

Asylum Protection Center NGO President Rados Djurovic has said that although the Balkan route has formally been closed, refugees are "still passing through."

They are heading for the Hungarian-Serbian border "and then continuing their journey onward," Djurovic said on Thursday in Subotica, northern Serbia.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Hungary's Viktor Orban officially opened a new Hungarian-owned factory in Subotica in Serbia's northern province of Vojvodina. The province is home to a significant ethnic Hungarian community.

A migrant who climbed on top of a train car died of electric shock at the railway station in Subotica, northern Serbia, on Friday.

Serbian Railways media center confirmed this for Tanjug.

A lifeless body has been discovered in the building of the National Theater in Subotica, northern Serbia, Beta reported.

The agency said on Monday that this has been confirmed by the local police.