High-Ranking Police Official Shot Dead In Montenegro
PODGORICA, Yugoslavia (AFP) - A top Montenegrin police official investigating economic crime was gunned down Monday in the center of the Yugoslav republic's capital Podgorica, police said.
Darko Raspopovic, 42, was chief of a Montenegrin interior ministry police unit specializing in the investigation of economic crime.
Witnesses cited by the Beta news agency said at least one gunman in a vehicle opened fire on Raspopovic outside his apartment building shortly after 5:00 pm (1600 GMT).
Police set up roadblocks around the area but no arrests were announced.
The official survived a previous assassination attempt last year when a bomb destroyed his car.
The killing was the second of a top official in Montenegro in a little more than six months. Last May, Goran Zugic, an advisor to Montenegro's reformist President Milo Djukanovic on security issues, was assassinated in the capital.
Independence-minded Montenegro has been a partner of the dominant Serbia in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia since 1982.
