Two killed, 10 wounded in Pristina blast of mafia boss cafe
Two people were killed and ten wounded early Monday in a massive blast in Pristina, which saw the destruction of a two-storey building housing a café and other businesses owned by an alleged local mafia boss.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Monday, September 24, 2007
Last month police ransacked one of the shops, situated on the Bill Clinton Boulevard, and arrested several ethnic Albanians suspected of involvement in the shooting of a policeman.
The policeman was gunned down in a car park in Pristina, meters away from an area frequented by youths. The suspected assailant later turned himself in to police.
The blast leveled the building at 2:15 am local time (0015 GMT) and saw the café inventory ejected 30 meters away from the parking.
According to police, the victims were killed by a collapsing wall, not by the blast itself.
The lives of the injured are not in danger.
Pristina is almost exclusively populated of Kosovo Albanians, who are pushing for the independence of the UN-administered Serbian province, plagued by crime and corruption.
