Goran Hadzic is the last major war crimes suspect wanted by the tribunal in The Hague Serbian authorities say they have arrested Goran Hadzic, the last remaining fugitive sought by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
Mr Hadzic is wanted for atrocities committed in the 1991-1995 war in Croatia. He led Croatian Serb separatist forces.The arrest comes less than two months after Serbia caught former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic.
Mr Hadzic is charged with the murder of hundreds of Croatians and non-Serbs.
Serbian officials say he was detained on Wednesday at Fruska Gora mountain, north of Belgrade, near his family home. He had always been presumed to be hiding there, the BBC's Mark Lowen reports from Belgrade.
Mr Hadzic went into hiding seven years ago, shortly after the sealed indictment against him was delivered to the government in Belgrade.
Wartime atrocities He was a central figure in the self-proclaimed Serb republic of Krajina in 1992-1993.
Serbia's President Boris Tadic has scheduled an urgent news conference for 1100 (0900 GMT).
Mr Hadzic faces 14 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity including persecution, extermination, torture, deportation and wanton destruction for his involvement in atrocities committed by Serb troops in Croatia.
He is held responsible for the massacre of almost 300 men in Vukovar in 1991 by Croatian Serb troops and for the deportation of 20,000 people from the town after it was captured.
Our correspondent says the Hadzic case was seen as the last big obstacle to Serbia gaining EU candidate status and a start date for accession talks. There was a $1.4m (£870,000) bounty out for his capture.
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