Arrests after Serbian PM gunned down
Police in Serbia have today arrested several members of a shadowy underworld network accused of assassinating the prime minister.
PM Zoran Djindjic was a pro-Western leader who made enemies by pushing for the arrest of mobsters and war crimes suspects.
Zarko Korac, Serbia's deputy prime minister, said that "although several arrests were made, many of the suspects are still in hiding and have gone underground."
A government-imposed state of emergency, which curtailed some civil liberties, took effect today, a day after snipers killed Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic in downtown Belgrade as he stepped out of his armored car en route to meetings at a government building.
A statement late last night by the Serbian Cabinet blamed Milorad Lukovic, a warlord loyal to former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, and an underworld network known as the "Zemun Clan" after a Belgrade suburb, for allegedly organizing the killing.
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