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Police have arrested 181 suspects since the introduction of a national state of emergency in Serbia following Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic's assassination, the press bureau of Serbia and Montenegro said in a statement in Belgrade on Friday.
A total of 136 suspects were apprehended within the last 24 hours, the statement said. Meanwhile, police seized large amounts of weapons and drugs, stolen cars and other forensic evidence which could prove the involvement of organized crime in the premier's killing, it said.
Belgrade police chief Milan Obradovich told the press on Thursday that police had already arrested 40 suspects who had "direct or indirect" links to the "Zemun Clan," an underworld group which allegedly carried out the murder of Djindjic.
Djindjic, 50, who played a pivotal role in the downfall of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in October 2000, died on Wednesday in Belgrade emergency hospital after he was shot and critically wounded near the government building.
(Xinhua News Agency March 15, 2003)
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