According to the locals, the boys were shot by an Albanian from a moving vehicle while they were wearing a Christmas tree, reports Kosovo Online. The local Serbs said that the road blockade will last until the attacker of the Serbian children is arrested, and the situation is currently extremely tense. Members of the Kosovo Police are also present, and a KFOR vehicle with Polish soldiers is parked a little further from the blockade. There are currently no EULEX members on the field.
The Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petković, announced today that a person shot two boys of Serbian nationality in Gotovuša near Štrpce.
"It was an attempt to kill two Serbian boys in Gotovuša near Štrpac," Petkovič said, adding that the two boys had gunshot wounds, and that a person shot at them while they were wearing Christmas clothes.
The Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija concludes: "Someone wanted to give us a bloody Christmas."
Kosovo Police statement
On the occasion of the wounding of two Serbian boys in Gotovuša near Štrpce, the Kosovo police announced Facebook.
The statement states that they received information that "two people, one about 11 years old and the other about 31 years old, were wounded with a firearm by an unknown person who was in a moving passenger vehicle traveling from Štrpce in the direction of Uroševac." , broadcast by RTS.
It is added that "two of the injured were sent to the Family Medicine Center in Štrpac for the provision of medical assistance, and after providing first aid in Štrpac, they were sent by ambulance to Gračanica for further treatment."
"According to the information we have, both of the injured are out of danger." All the actions were taken by the police, and then the police investigators and criminal technicians of the Regional Investigation Sector, on the authority of the prosecutor, went to the scene and began the investigation," the statement says.
The wounded are out of danger
The doctor of the nearby Health Center, Zoran Zrnzević, said that the boy was shot in the upper arm and that he will need further treatment in Gračanica because, he says, the bullet most likely remained inside.
"The other guy got a bullet that remained in his hand, it's a hand, so he will also have to go to the surgery department," added Zrnzević.
MN/FoNet
Read daily news, analysis, commentary and interviews at www.vreme.com