Five persons were arrested on Thursday on suspicion of committing war crimes in the eastern town of Borovo 19 years ago, the Vukovar-Srijem County Police Department said on Thursday.
The police said the arrests were the result of months of investigation and that more details would be made public at a press conference on Friday.
The five are suspected of involvement in the murder of 12 members of the Vinkovci-based special police unit, who were killed by Serb paramilitary forces in an ambush in Borovo, which was then called Borovo Selo, on the night between 1 and 2 May 1991, Interior Ministry spokesman Krunoslav Borovec said.
The 12 policemen went to Borovo to rescue two colleagues who had been taken prisoner earlier that night. They were caught in an ambush, killed and mutilated.
