Serbian police detain 750 people in search for prime minister’s assassin

POLICE hunting the killers of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic have detained more than 750 people in a sweep through the underworld, the reformist politician nominated new premier said yesterday.

Prime minister-designate Zoran Zivkovic, a close ally of the slain leader, told parliament as it prepared to vote on his candidacy that the government would push on with Western-backed reforms and pledged a drive to crush organised crime.

Zivkovic, 42, said the police operation launched after Djindjic was killed by a sniper in Belgrade on March 12 was showing results.