VUKOVAR/ OSIJEK, 31 March (Hina) - A serious incident occurred Monday morning in Vukovar before the beginning of a press conference organised by the election commission of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) of Vukovar County. The
conference was to present the program and candidates of HDZ party of Vukovar County.
VUKOVAR/ OSIJEK, 31 March (Hina) - A serious incident occurred Monday
morning in Vukovar before the beginning of a press conference organised by
the election commission of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) of Vukovar
County. The conference was to present the program and candidates of HDZ
party of Vukovar County. #L#
A group of several hundred local Serb extremists attacked with stones
some 20 members of the Vukovar County HDZ, who arrived in the hotel Dunav in
Vukovar, accompanied by some 20 journalists.
The HDZ rally also included Vukovar County prefect Vlado Osust.
According to Douglas Coffman of the UNTAES information service, no one
was seriously hurt..
In a phone conversation with Hina's correspondent in Osijek, Coffman
said that the participants in the rally had first been transported in
armoured vehicles to the UNTAES headquarters in Vukovar and then in U.N.
vehicles to Vinkovci.
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