Three people were killed and eight others injured yesterday when a hand grenade explodedß in northern Serbia, national RTS television reported, citing police.
The grenade was activated by a 34-year-old man after security guards at the bar Dama in Idvor, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Belgrade, did not allow him to enter. The man was also killed in the blast.
The lives of the eight injured people were not in danger, the report said.
Large quantities of illegal weapons left from the 1990s wars in the Balkans are still found in Serbia.
Separately, the Muslim chairman of Bosnia's tripartite presidency criticized Serbia's new rightist president, Tomislav Nikolic for playing down the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of up to 8,000 Muslims, Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two.
Both the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) have ruled that the Srebrenica massacre amounted to genocide.
But in an interview with Montenegrin state television posted on its website, Nikolic said: "There was no genocide in Srebrenica. In Srebrenica, grave war crimes were committed by some Serbs who should be found, prosecuted and punished.
"It is very difficult to indict someone and prove before a court that an event qualifies as genocide."
Bakir Izetbegovic, who shares Bosnia's presidency with a Croat and a Serb, said such declarations were insulting to the survivors.
"The denial of genocide in Srebrenica ... will not pave the way for cooperation and reconciliation in the region, but on the contrary may cause fresh misunderstandings and tensions," he said in a statement.
Bosnian Serb forces under the command of General Ratko Mladic slaughtered around 8,000 Muslim men and boys after capturing the town of Srebrenica, declared a "safe haven" by the United Nations, towards the end of Bosnia's 1992-95 war. Mladic and the Bosnian Serbs' wartime political leader, Radovan Karadzic, are on trial in The Hague accused among other things of genocide for the killings.
"By giving such statements, Nikolic has clearly demonstrated that he is still not ready to face the truth about the events that took place in our recent past," Izetbegovic said.
Nikolic's shock win over incumbent president Boris Tadic sent a chill through a region that still recalls his last spell in government - as deputy prime minister in a coalition with Serbia's late strongman Slobodan Milosevic when NATO bombed Serbia to drive its forces out of Kosovo during a 1998-99 war.
Three killed, eight injured in Serbian blast
