The leader of a Serbian party in Kosovo has been gunned down, local media report. Oliver Ivanovic was one of the key politicians in the Serb-majority northern part of the region.
Ivanovic, 64, was fatally injured by an unidentified assailant in front of the office of his Citizens’ Initiative Party, Serbian state television reported.
“Unfortunately, I wish it weren’t true, but doctors declared Oliver dead at 9:30 this morning,” Nebojsa Vlajic, Ivanovic’s lawyer told AP by phone.
The politician was earlier convicted by a Kosovo court of war crimes committed during a war in late 1990s. That verdict was overturned and a retrial had been underway.
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