MINERAL WATER SPRING IN KLOKOT MINED

Unknown persons blew up a mineral water spring in the village of Klokot near Vitina, the Coordinating Center for Kosovo and Metohija advised.

"The explosive was planted last night at about 8:45 p.m. despite the fact that the spring is located some 100 meters from the first houses in the village and there is a Kosovo police checkpoint only 50 meters away," the Coordinating Center communicated in a written statement.

Vitina municipal coordinator Nenad Kojic said that the houses were not damaged but that the Serb residents of Klokot were extremely disturbed by the explosion.

Today there are about 1,300 Serbs living in the ethnically mixed village of Klokot. Prior to 1999 there was a large mineral water factory in Klokot, which was purchased a few years ago as part of the privatization of socially-owned companies in Kosovo and Metohija.

The Coordinating Center warned that after the mining of the spring, supplying the population with water and the work of the factory for production of mineral water will be impeded.

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