Fugitive Karadzic arrested in Serbia

The office of Serbian president said tonight that former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had been arrested in Serbia.

President Boris Tadic’s office said in a statement that Karadzic was arrested tonight “in an action by the Serbian security services”.

Karadzic has been indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia for genocide during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

He has been hiding since 1998.