People follow the casket during a final farewell of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic in the northern, Serb-dominated part of Mitrovica, Kosovo, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018. Ivanovic's body will be transferred to the Serbian capital, Belgrade, where he will be buried on Thursday. Ivanovic was gunned down Tuesday morning in the northern Kosovo city of Mitrovica.
People follow the casket during a final farewell of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic in the northern, Serb-dominated part of Mitrovica, Kosovo, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018. Ivanovic's body will be transferred to the Serbian capital, Belgrade, where he will be buried on Thursday. Ivanovic was gunned down Tuesday morning in the northern Kosovo city of Mitrovica. Bojan Slavkovic AP Photo
People follow the casket during a final farewell of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic in the northern, Serb-dominated part of Mitrovica, Kosovo, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018. Ivanovic's body will be transferred to the Serbian capital, Belgrade, where he will be buried on Thursday. Ivanovic was gunned down Tuesday morning in the northern Kosovo city of Mitrovica. Bojan Slavkovic AP Photo

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Hundreds attend funeral of slain Kosovo Serb politician

The Associated Press

January 18, 2018 04:37 AM

BELGRADE, Serbia

Serbia's prime minister has joined hundreds of people attending the funeral of a moderate Serb politician who was gunned down this week in Kosovo in an attack that fueled concerns for Balkan stability.

The mourners crammed into Belgrade's New Cemetery Thursday to pay their respects to Oliver Ivanovic, who was known as a voice of tolerance in the ethnically tense Kosovo. The 64-year-old was shot Tuesday six times by unknown assailants near his political party's offices in the ethnically-divided northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica.

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, other officials and prominent public figures were present at the funeral service, held by the Serbian Orthodox Church.

Kosovo's stability remains shaky ten years after the predominantly ethnic-Albanian region declared independence from Serbia.

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