Thursday, February 21, 2008

US embassy in Belgrade attacked

BBC NEWS:

 
 

US embassy in Belgrade attacked


Police were not guarding the embassy at the time

Several hundred protesters have attacked and broken into the US embassy in the Serbian capital Belgrade, setting fire to part of it.

The embassy was closed and unprotected at the time. Reports say the Croatian embassy was also attacked.

The incidents came as at least 150,000 people rallied in protest at Kosovo's declaration of independence.

Protesters with flags and flares filled the main square. PM Vojislav Kostunica said Kosovo would always be Serbian.

Earlier, on Serbia's de facto border with Kosovo, Serb army reservists attacked Kosovan police with stones and set fire to tyres.

  

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