Victim of shooting dies in hospital

Store owner Miki Dedaj did not survive the three wounds he got in his abdomen during the armed robbery against a Medjugorje jewelry shop on June 14. Five and a half days later the dum-dum bullets proved fatal, and Miki Dedaj died at 51 in the hospital of Mostar, leaving six children behind.

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Miki Dedaj’s funeral on June 22 gathered many people from Medjugorje and Citluk

Medjugorje is in sorrow after 51 years old store owner Miki Dedaj died from shot wounds in the hospital of Mostar on Wednesday at 2.30 pm, local news portal Hercegovina Info reports.

About 10.15 pm on June 14 Miki Dedaj tried to stop a gang of armed robbers when he heard noise from his nephew’s jewelry shop. He entered the shop and shouted “Stop it!” when one of the three robbers shot him three times from a car parked outside.

Severely hit in the abdomen, Miki Dedaj’s life was endangered when doctors in Mostar immediately put him on the operation table.

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