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| Ratko Mladic hunt: Arrest reported in Serbia | Ratko Mladic hunt: Arrest reported in Serbia |
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| A man said to strongly resemble fugitive Bosnian war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic is undergoing identity tests after being arrested in Serbia. | A man said to strongly resemble fugitive Bosnian war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic is undergoing identity tests after being arrested in Serbia. |
| Respected Serbian broadcaster B92 reported the arrest and said the suspect had been using the name Milorad Komadic. | |
| A family friend quoted by Reuters said the detainee was Gen Mladic. | |
| Gen Mladic was Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic's army chief throughout the Bosnian war. | |
| He is the most prominent Bosnian war crimes suspect at large since the arrest of Mr Karadzic in 2008. | |
| Serbian President Boris Tadic is due to make a statement shortly. | Serbian President Boris Tadic is due to make a statement shortly. |
| Gen Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military leader, is wanted by the Hague Tribunal on genocide and war crimes charges. | Gen Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military leader, is wanted by the Hague Tribunal on genocide and war crimes charges. |
| An interior ministry official confirmed to Reuters that a suspect was being held. | |
| "He has some physical features of Mladic, we are analysing his DNA now," the official said on condition of anonymity. | "He has some physical features of Mladic, we are analysing his DNA now," the official said on condition of anonymity. |
| The man was arrested in Serbia on an anonymous tip-off, he added. | The man was arrested in Serbia on an anonymous tip-off, he added. |
| Top suspect | |
| A high official of the Serbian intelligence service BIA contacted by AFP news agency would not confirm the news. | |
| "I don't have any information about this - go see what Tadic says," Jovan Stojic said. | |
| Serbia's war crimes prosecutors also refused to confirm or deny that Gen Mladic had been detained, the Associated Press news agency reports. | |
| Gen Mladic has been indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal over the massacre of at least 7,500 Muslim men and boys from the town of Srebrenica in 1995. | |
| Having lived freely in Belgrade for some time, he disappeared from view when former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested in 2001. | |
| Speculation mounted that he Mladic would soon be arrested when Mr Karadzic was captured in Belgrade in July 2008. |