Ranilug

RANILUG - An explosive device was lobbed at a Serb-owned hospitality establishment in the Ranilug municipality near Kosovska Kamenica, Kosovo-Metohija, last night and the blast caused material damage.

The establishment was closed at the time of the explosion, the RTS reported.

RANILUG - An explosive device was lobbed at a Serb-owned hospitality establishment in the Ranilug municipality near Kosovska Kamenica, Kosovo-Metohija, last night and the blast caused material damage.

The establishment was closed at the time of the explosion, the RTS reported.

PRISTINA - An explosive device - most likely a hand grenade - was last night thrown into the yard of the Ranilug family home of the headmaster of the Kosovska Kamenica grammar school in Kosovo-Metohija, Serb Milan Ristic.

The blast damaged a car and shrapnel marks are also visible on a garage and other buildings in the yard.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said bombs had been lodged on the family homes of three Srpska lista representatives in the province's Ranilug municipality last night to intimidate them and force them to leave as a part of Pristina PM Albin Kurti's continued campaign of ethnic cleansing.

Radio Kontakt Plus is reporting this on Tuesday, adding that the man was detained around 19:40 hours CET on Monday, in the municipality of Ranilug.

"Regular court procedure has been launched against the suspect," the Kosovo police said in a press release sent to the radio station

Kosovo citizens go to the polls on Sunday to vote for mayors and members of assemblies in the country's 38 municipalities, hoping a change in power will lead to a change in their daily lives.

The main battle is focused in the capital, Pristina, which is also the only municipality governed by the opposition Vetevendosje Movement.

The Council for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms, an NGO based in Pristina, called on Tuesday for the immediate sacking of the mayor of the Serbian-majority municipality of Ranilluge/Ranilug after the plan to honour Milosevic caused outrage.

BELGRADE - Head of the Serbian government office for Kosovo Marko Djuric met on Friday with mayors and heads of provisional authorities in the Kosovsko-Pomoravlje District, eastern Kosovo, to discuss long-term economic development.