Two boys stabbed in Bosniak Mahala

Two boys, a Serb and a Gorani, were stabbed in the back on Saturday in the Bosniak Mahala District, northern Kosovska Mitrovica, and the attackers and motives behind the crime have not been identified.

(kosovocompromisestuff) Saturday, April 27, 2013

The wounded Kosovo Serb, aged 15, and the Gorani, aged 15, were taken to the Healthcare Centre and their condition is stable.

Director of the Healthcare Centre Milan Ivanovic told Tanjug that the boys were hospitalised at the surgery ward and that their medical state is stable.

Deputy Regional Director of the Kosovo Police Service Ergin Medic told Tanjug that the motives for the attack are still unknown and that the attackers have not been identified yet.

The Bosniak Mahala is a multiethnic district in northern Kosovska Mitrovica and it is home to both Serbs and ethnic Albanians.


Pantic visits wounded boys

Deputy Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Krstimir Pantic visited the two boys hospitalised at the Kosovska Mitrovica Hospital after they were stabbed in the back in the district of Bosniak Mahala on Saturday.

The two boys, aged 15, were attacked by a group of Albanians in Bosniak Mahala as they were riding their bikes, Pantic told Tanjug.

This is another indicator of what Serbs can expect in an independent Kosovo in case of the implementation of the Brussels agreement, Pantic said.

Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija, especially those to the north, will not yield to intimidation and this will only strengthen their willingness and determination to defend what belongs to them and what will remain theirs, Pantic underscored.

It is lamentable that ethnic Albanians are attacking children too, for behind even, as they do not have the courage to look them in the eyes, Pantic said.

Quoting the surgeon on duty Radimir Jankovic, Pantic said that the boys, one of them Serb and the other Gorani, were very lucky as the blade did not cut the aorta, otherwise the consequences would have been fatal.