A top Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect, indicted by The Hague international tribunal for atrocities in the Bosnian war, was captured Monday in Argentina, the official Tanjug news agency reported.

Milan Lukic, who has been on the run since late 1990s, was detained in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires on an international arrest warrant.

Lukic was indicted in 2000 by The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for abduction and killing of Muslims from Serbia.

In July this year, Lukic was sentenced in absentia by a Serbian court to 20 years in prison for his role in the abduction of 16 Muslims from a bus in Serbia in 1992.

Lukic, as a leading member of a Bosnian Serb paramilitary group known as "The Avengers", allegedly took part in the abduction of the Muslims, 15 men and a woman, who were later taken to Bosnia, tortured and executed.

Source: Xinhua