BELGRADE, September 25. /TASS/. A group of pilgrims from Novi Sad was able to leave the Banjska Orthodox Monastery, located in northern Kosovo and Metohija, a day after being blocked there when the monastery was seized by a group of armed masked men, the Vecernje Novosti newspaper reports.
At around 4:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. Moscow Time), the group of pilgrims from Novi Sad, who happened to be staying at the Banjska Monastery on Sunday, left the monastery escorted by two vehicles of the EU Rule of Law Mission, the newspaper said.
According to Vecernje Novosti, residents of Banjska are still locked in their homes, and relatives of local elderly and sick people have had to request special permission from the Kosovo police to visit their relatives and hand over medicines.
The Serbian newspaper Blic also reported that a convoy of military trucks carrying armored vehicles was spotted on the highway leading towards the town of Raska, located on the administrative border with Kosovo and Metohija.