SIBENIK, June 18 (Hina) - The bodies of the Damjanic couple, Nikola and Milica, who were killed in Prukljan on August 11, 1995, were set on fire after the murder and it was therefore not possible to establish the exact circumstances
of their murder, expert witnesses Dusan Zvecevic and Damir Cetipovic said on Tuesday at the trial of four former Croatian Army soldiers who are standing trial at the Sibenik County Court, charged with murdering the couple.
SIBENIK, June 18 (Hina) - The bodies of the Damjanic couple, Nikola
and Milica, who were killed in Prukljan on August 11, 1995, were set
on fire after the murder and it was therefore not possible to
establish the exact circumstances of their murder, expert
witnesses Dusan Zvecevic and Damir Cetipovic said on Tuesday at the
trial of four former Croatian Army soldiers who are standing trial
at the Sibenik County Court, charged with murdering the couple.
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An investigation at the site of the murder has revealed traces of
barrage fire both to the right and left from the site, but those
traces are not connected in any way with the bullets found in the
bodies of the killed. The expert witnesses estimate that Milica
Damjanic was standing below a plateau in her front yard when she was
shot, while her husband, an invalid, was standing at the plateau and
was wounded in both knees. It has been established that the two were
shot from long-barrel automatic weapons.
The trial resumes tomorrow with the testimony of the key witness
Ivan Vuksic, who at the time of the murder was commander of a
reconnaissance unit the four accused belonged to and who was in
Prukljan at the time of the murder.
The trial of the four former HV soldiers started on May 28 this
year.
(hina) rml