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Police remove bomb from car outside Belgrade City Hall (Roundup)
Jul 13, 2009, 18:01 GMT
Belgrade - Serbian police on Monday removed an explosive device placed under a car in front of Belgrade City Hall.
Police chief Bratislav Dikic said his officers had deactivated the explosive device and removed it from underneath a Maserati car.
Dikic did not specify what kind of an explosive device was removed.
The incident coincides with a trip to the Serbian capital by the European Union's top diplomat, Javier Solana. It also comes after the weekend's commemoration of the 14th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre of 1995.
The police closed the street where the car was parked and a large number of police officers, firefighters and ambulance were on the scene late Monday.
The woman owner of the car told police a bomb had been placed under her car.
Belgrade City Hall is in a proximity of Serbian Presidential building where in May a man armed with hand grenades entered and threatened to blow himself up.
Although Solana is in Belgrade his meetings are believed to be in another part of the capital.
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