Draskovic shot at

PODGORICA (YUGOSLAVIA), JUNE 16. The Serbian Opposition leader, Mr. Vuk Draskovic, (53), was shot and injured during a visit to Montenegro in an apparent assassination attempt, aides and police said today.

Mr. Draskovic was hit in the ear and forehead when gunmen opened fire through the windows of the house he was staying in, in the Montenegrin coastal town of Budva, local police chief said.

The Opposition leader, a long-time opponent of the Yugoslav President, Mr. Slobodan Milosevic, had been ``slightly injured in the head in an armed attack,'' said Mr. Ranko Kuljaca, head of the Budva police department.

Medical sources contacted by phone in Kotor told AFP that Mr. Draskovic had been treated in the hospital, but was later discharged.

In Belgrade, Mr. Draskovic's Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) described the attack as ``another assassination bid'' against him.

There was no information on the assailants and no arrests had been made.

- AFP

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