HEILBRONN, West Germany -- Two gunmen shot todeath three exiled Yugoslavs and one of the victims accused the Yugoslav secret service of the murders before he died, police said today.
They said the three men, exiled Yugoslavs of Albanian origin, were politically active in an organization working for the independence of Kosova, a province in southern Yugoslavia on the Albanian border.
The men were shot as they drove from their garage Sunday night in a village near Heilbronn, 30 miles north of Stuttgart, police said.
Two of the Yugoslavs died instantly. The third was rushed to hospital where he told police he suspected the Yugoslav secret service of carrying out the shooting, a police spokesman said.
The victims were identified as Bardhosh Gervalla, 31, his brother, Jusuf Gervalla, 36, and Zeka Kadri, 28.
Jusuf Gervalla, who died in hospital, received political asylum in West Germany in December 1979. Yugoslav authorities had convicted the Gervalla brothers of being members of an anti-Yugoslav organization, police said.
They said Kadri, a broadcast journalist, had been living in Switzerland, where he received political asylum.
Police said witnesses saw two men running from the scene of the killings shortly after the shots were fired.
