YUGOSLAVIA: FOUR ETHNIC ALBANIANS INJURED IN ATTACK BY SERBS.

Record ID: 355435

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: FOUR ETHNIC ALBANIANS INJURED IN ATTACK BY SERBS.
  • Date: 6th February 2000
  • Summary: PRISTINA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA, (FEBRUARY 5, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. LV/GV: EXTERIOR OF HOSPITAL IN PRISTINA (2 SHOTS) 0.09 2. GV: INTENSIVE CARE DEPARTMENT WHERE PATIENTS ARE BEING TREATED 1.15 3. MV: ONE OF THE PATIENTS, BASHKIM RUKECI 38, LYING ON HIS BED, MEDICAL TEAM LOOKING AFTER HIM 0.21 4. GV/CU: ANOTHER PATIENT, NIMAN SEJDIU, SERIOUSL
  • Embargoed: 21st February 2000 12:00
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  • Location: PRISTINA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVAB744TJD92Q8NGFS1E6RX2TS4Y
  • Story Text: Four ethnic Albanians injured in an attack by Serbs
    earlier this week in the troubled city of Mitrovica have been
    transferred to intensive care in a Pristina hospital.

    For the second day in a row, French KFOR Peacekeepers
    were forced to use tear gas and percussion grenades to
    disperse angry ethnic Albanians who gathered near the bridge
    which separates Serb and Albanian communitites in Mitrovica on
    Friday and Saturday (February 4,5).

    Around a thousand Albanians congregated to protest against
    ethnic violence that erupted on Thursday night (February 4) on
    the northern side of the city.Seven people, at least five
    ethnic Albanians, were killed and around 20 were wounded in
    the violence.

    Thursday's wounded were first treated in a Moroccan KFOR
    field hospital in Mitrovica and then transferred to Pristina
    on Saturday (February 5).

    Rrezarta Ajeti, 18, had her leg amputated, while Bashkim Rukeci
    suffered abdominal injuries.

    They are two of the four patients who have been transferred to
    the intensive care unit of a hospital in Pristina.

    Doctor Sami Spahiu was optimistic that their condition is
    improving.

    Rrezarta Ajeti, 18, explained what happened on the night
    of the attack when she lost her leg.She said Serbs opened
    fire twice with guns.After that a bomb exploded and cut her
    leg off.

    The total number of those injured on Thursday night
    cannot be confirmed as they have been sent to several
    different hospitals.

    The latest violence in Kosovo began on Wednesday with a
    deadly rocket attack on a U.N.bus carrying Serb civilians in
    the Mitrovica area.Two Serbs were killed and three were
    wounded in that incident, KFOR said
    KFOR imposed a night curfew to reduce tension in the
    northern industrial city, one of postwar Kosovo's most serious
    hotspots.The second night of the curfew, from Saturday into
    Sunday, had been generally respected, the spokesman said.

    Bernard Kouchner, the head of Kosovo's United Nations-led
    administration, was likely to go straight to Mitrovica after
    arriving back from a foreign trip on Sunday, U.N.officials
    said.


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