Reuters is reporting that a hand grenade exploded in a elementary school classroom yesterday in a village near 
Kamenica, which is near our home of Gjilan. This is terrible news. Hand grenades seem to be regularly thrown around by people irritated with each other in Kosovo. It’s not unusual to hear of one thrown in someone's yard, or under a vehicle or even children finding them in fields, left over from the war. It is very unusual to hear about one in a classroom or one being used to intentionally endanger children.
PRISTINA, Serbia (Reuters) - A grenade exploded in a classroom used by Serb children in Kosovo on Tuesday, but the elementary school pupils escaped injury, police said.
A Kosovo police spokesman said the grenade exploded in a stove used to heat the classroom shortly after lessons began at around 7.50 a.m. (0650 GMT) at the Trajko Peric school in the village of Veliko Ropotovo near the eastern town of Kamenica.
"The stove was completely destroyed and some parts of the classroom as well," said spokesman Veton Elshani.
A Kosovo Serb education official said the children had been moved to another classroom minutes earlier because their teacher was absent, leaving the room empty. "So tragedy was avoided," Zivorad Tomic told the Serb state news agency Tanjug.
Praise God no one was injured. I hope they catch whoever did it an put them away for a long time.
2 comments:
Greetings from Gjilan, Mr. Info-Man. Thanks for the updates and info. about here! (why do you always know about these factoids before me? :).
Happy Thanksgiving!
Hey Roberta...I'm just reading the news is all. You had the scoop on that general being indicted for war crimes back in August! You were the 'man on the spot' :)
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