Mourners light candles for murdered Kosovo Serb leader


  • World
  • Wednesday, 17 Jan 2018

A cortege escorts a car carrying coffin of Oliver Ivanovic, flanked by priests and family, to the northern outskirts of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo, January 17, 2018. REUTERS/Djordje Kojadinovic

MITROVICA, Kosovo (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.

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.

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