De voormalige Bosnisch-Servische opperbevelhebber Ratko Mladic is overleden in de gevangenis in Scheveningen, bevestigt zijn advocaat aan persbureau Reuters na berichtgeving van Servische staatsmedia. Mladic was 84 jaar en kampte al maanden met gezondheidsproblemen.

Wartime commander was serving life sentence for Srebrenica massacre and siege of Sarajevo; reports say he died in a UN prison hospital in The Hague

Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general responsible for atrocities in Bosnia during the 1990s, has died in prison at age 84.