Šumadija and Western Serbia

Three persons have died while two were seriously injured in a car crash on the Novi-Pazar-Ribarice road, the Novi Pazar police have announced.

Sto Plus Radio was told that two vehicles were involved in the crash that took place around 23:00 ours CET on Sunday.

Police in southwest "raise security" in wake of attack

NOVI PAZAR -- After Monday's terrorist attack in Zvornik, eastern Bosnia, on the border with Serbia, the police in Novi Pazar has increased security measures.

They are also "monitoring the situation on the ground," the Beta news agency reported on Wednesday.

Gendarme jailed for 40 years in double murder case

KRALJEVO -- The Higher Court in Kraljevo has confirmed the 40-year prison sentence previously handed down to Aleksandar Krstic, who was charged with double murder.

Krstic, a resident of Kraljevo, was serving as a member of the Serbian police Gendarmerie unit at the time the crime was committed, in July 2013.

BELGRADE - Officials of the City of Kragujevac and the company Barakat Palace Group from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed a cooperation agreement Monday under which the company is to mediate in bringing investors to that Serbian city.

The agreement was signed by Kragujevac Mayor Radomir Nikolic and President of Barakat Palace Group Talal Ahmed Ali.

NOVI PAZAR - Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Monday that he is ready to discuss open issues with the Bosniaks in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

CAJETINA - The municipality of Cajetina has been awarded the 2015 Green Planet recognition for the successful implementation of the project for the primary selection of waste "Waste Is No Thrash", the municipality located on Mt. Zlatibor, western Serbia, released in a statement on Friday.

JAGODINA/SJENICA - Professionals with the Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) tasked with demining started on Tuesday searching the site in the area of Sjenica suspected of having around one million square meters contaminated with cluster munitions, Director of the Serbian Mine Action Center Branislav Jovanovic said.

Part of Ibar regional road lane collapses

KRALJEVO -- A landslide has collapsed a part of one lane on the Ibar regional road near Bogutovac on the Kraljevo-Raska section, restricting traffic to only one lane.

B92's reporter said on Monday that the landslide was still active and endangering the other lane as well.

VALJEVO - The exhibition on Valjevo during the epidemic of typhus in 1914-15, when the whole town was one big hospital, opened in the National Museum of Valjevo to honour the numerous victims of war who died during the epidemic in 1914 and 1915.

VALJEVO - The exhibition on Valjevo during the epidemic of typhoid fever in 1914-15, when the whole town was one big hospital, is to open at the National Museum of Valjevo on Thursday, April 2.

The presentation is inspired by the first-person narratives of foreigners who found themselves in Valjevo, western Serbia, at that time.