Kosovo Serbs, mainly from Mitrovica, gathered at Ivanovic's party office on Wednesday, lighting candles before they escorted his coffin to the outskirts of the town, from where a car will take it to Belgrade where the funeral will take place.Ī Serbian Orthodox church bishop held a service before the procession left. Ivanovic came to prominence shortly after the war as one of the Mitrovica "bridge-watchers", Serbs who sought to prevent "infiltration" by Albanians over the Ibar River bridge into the northern half of the town. Serbia condemned the killing as an act of terrorism but the president declined to say whether he believed the killing was ethnically motivated. He was facing a retrial over the killings of ethnic Albanians during the 1998-99 war. Oliver Ivanovic, 64, was shot dead with six bullets on Tuesday in front of his party office in Mitrovica, a town bitterly divided between ethnic Serbs and Albanians. MITROVICA, Kosovo, Jan 17 (Reuters) - More than 2,000 people gathered in Kosovo's northern town of Mitrovica on Wednesday to pay respects to a Serb leader whose killing inflamed tensions between the neighbours.
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