POLICE WORKING ON SHEDDING LIGHT ON ZAGREB SQUARE SHOOTING

ZAGREB, March 22 (Hina) - The police will take decisive action to shed light as soon as possible on an armed incident which happened in downtown Zagreb on Thursday, top Croatian police official Ranko Ostojic told reporters this evening. Vjeko Slisko and James Capau, a Croatian-Belgian citizen, were seriously wounded in a shooting which took place in Zagreb's Preradoviceva and Varsavska streets at 2.45 pm. Slisko is known as a leading Zagreb mobster. Capau was born in Belgium but due to his involvement with the underground he frequently changed his identity. The police are searching for the third participant in today's shooting, Ostojic said, adding there had been no casualties among passers-by. The police were very fast and efficient and a number of eyewitnesses were able to give them detailed information about the incident, he said. Croatian Television this evening carried unofficial reports saying one of the two men wounded in the shooting died in the meantime, which Interior Ministry spokesman Slavko Rako denied in a statement to Hina. (hina) rml