The president of the roof organisation of Croats in Serbia and Montenegro told Hina that the incident could cause harm to the country and good neighbourly relations between Croatia and Serbia and Montenegro and expressed hope it would not result in serious consequences.
The Novi Sad-based daily Gradjanski List is the only newspaper in Vojvodina to report in detail about the incidents in Vukovar and the region. The press in Belgrade did not report on the explosions while electronic media and the Politika daily onyl briefly reported about the incident.
The Serb population fears that Croatian Homeland War soldiers are behind the attack," reads the headline of an article in Gradjanski List.
This is an attack on the Serb party and the state, but this is not only ethnically motivated violence, it is violence that borderes with terrorism., the daily cited a deputy in the Croatian parliament and president of the Serb Democratic independent Party, Vojislav Stanimirovic.
Novi Sad-based Radio 021 said the Croatian Government had most harshly condemned the planting of two explosive devices in Borovo and Trpinje. The radio said Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader ordered the Interior Ministry and other security institutions to intensify investigating activities so as to arrest and bring the perpetrator to justice as soon as possible.