A Serb, suspected of involvement in killings in the Croatian town of Vukovar in 1991, was detained after surrendering to a court in Serbia, Beta news agency reported today.
Beta quoted the investigative judge at a special war crimes court, Judge Miroslav Alimpic, as saying Milan Lancuzanin was detained yesterday in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad.
The website of the Belgrade daily Danas described Lancuzanin as a member of the ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party and commander of a paramilitary unit operating in Vukovar in 1991.
"Early last week he called and yesterday he came to the court with his lawyer and explained that he had not been on the run but in hospital," Judge Alimpic told Beta.
Lancuzanin is in jail in Novi Sad and will be transferred to a Belgrade prison where he will join other suspects accused of carrying out the killings in Vukovar.
Some 200 Croats and other non-Serbs - 198 men and two women - were taken from a hospital and executed after Yugoslav troops captured Vukovar as Croatia battled to secede from the former Yugoslav federation.