SARAJEVO (AFP) – A new mass grave believed to contain victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre has been discovered in eastern Bosnia, an official said yesterday. “So far we have detected what could be the remains of between 15 and 20 people,” Murat Hurtic of Bosnia’s Missing Persons Commission told AFP. The exhumation of bodies from the site in Kamenica village, near the town of Zvornik, began on Monday and is expected to continue for two weeks.

SOFIA (Reuters) – Mobile phones and cameras will be banned from polling booths in Bulgaria’s local elections on Sunday following reports of vote-buying scams. Bulgarians have been bribed to vote for a designated candidate and then prove it by taking a picture of their ballot paper, the Balkan country’s media reported. The reports forced parliament to amend the law last week to punish people who sell their votes with up to one year in prison.

A Slav-Macedonian policeman was killed and two were injured in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia when their patrol car was ambushed by armed men in a volatile region near the border with the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo, officials said yesterday. “A police team patrolling the area near the Macedonia-Kosovo border was ambushed and shot at with automatic rifles,” police told Reuters. “The incident took place near the border post of Kodra Fura. (Reuters)

Two miners were killed in a landslide at a Bulgarian coal mine yesterday, officials said. The two were trapped some 300 meters underground and, although rescue teams brought them out, their lives could not be saved, civil defense officials said. (Reuters)

In one of its largest hauls in a decade, Serbian customs officials seized 163 kilos (360 pounds) of heroin at a border crossing with Bulgaria, the Tanjug news agency said yesterday. The drugs were found in a secret compartment of a Turkish truck heading for Austria, France and the Netherlands, Tanjug cited Serbia’s customs service as saying. (AFP)

Twenty-one war crimes prisoners ended a hunger strike in a Bosnian prison after more than a month of refusing food, an official said yesterday. The inmates had been protesting being charged under Bosnia’s 2003 criminal code, which is stricter than that in the former Yugoslavia. The hunger strike was launched on September 10 by the mainly Serb detainees at Kula Prison, near Sarajevo. (AFP)