Volkswagen Touareg

Three persons have died in a traffic accident that happened at around 23:00 hours CET Thursday on the Banatsko Novo Selo-Vladimirovac road in northern Serbia.

As of Friday morning, only one victim, whose initials are M.D., has been identified. All three victims were traveling in a German license plates Volkswagen Touareg that collided with an excavator.

Volkswagen announced it would withdraw 800 thousand automobiles due to pedal possible problems. 319 thousand Touareg and 409,477 Porsche Cayenne manufactured beyween 2011 and 2016 will be taken off the market. The news comes after last year’s scandal which hit the company when it was revealed the pollutant emissions systems of the cars had been tampered with.

BELGRADE - Two men tried to smuggle nine parrots and about two kilos of living worms for fishing via the border crossing from Hungary into Serbia at Kelebija twice on Sunday, but were prevented in doing so by Serbian customs officials, Serbia’s Customs Administration said in a release Monday.