[ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=AB?=ALBEUROPA=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=BB?=} Gunmen Start Cross-Border Shoot-out with Serbia

[Nikoll A Mirakaj]

Gunmen Start Cross-Border Shoot-out with Serbia 

PRISTINA, Oct 5, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Gunmen opened fire into Serbia late Wednesday starting a gunfight that left no casualties on the Kosovo side of the border, police for the United Nations mission here (UNMIK) said here Thursday.

A van drove up to the border near the northeastern village of Donja Dubnica and gunmen opened automatic fire into Serbia at around 10:45 PM (2045 GMT), drawing return fire from the other side, UNMIK spokesman Charley Johnson said.

It was not known who, on the Serb side, had returned fire, or whether there had been casualties across the administrative border between the UN-run Yugoslav province and Serbia.

No one was injured inside Kosovo and three Albanians were arrested carrying military rifles and 133 rounds of live ammunition in the nearby town of Podujevo after the shooting, Johnson said.

Cross-border shooting is rare in the region, guarded by the NATO-led international peacekeeping force KFOR since the end of the 1998-1999 war between separatist Kosovo Albanians and Yugoslav forces. ((c) 2000 Agence France Presse) 

-------------- next part --------------
HTML attachment scrubbed and removed