YUGOSLAVIA: SERB MAN IS WOUNDED BY UNIDENTIFIED GUNMAN IN PRISTINA/ ETHNIC SERBS RETURNING FROM SERBIA SET UP REFUGEE CAMP IN KOSOVO POLJE

Record ID: 376964

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: SERB MAN IS WOUNDED BY UNIDENTIFIED GUNMAN IN PRISTINA/ ETHNIC SERBS RETURNING FROM SERBIA SET UP REFUGEE CAMP IN KOSOVO POLJE
  • Date: 22nd June 1999
  • Summary: PRISTINA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA (JUNE 22, 1999) (REUTERS) 1. SCU SERB MAN INJURED IN CAR 0.09 2. VARIOUS CAR DRIVING OFF WITH SERB MAN INSIDE (3 SHOTS) 0.23 3. VARIOUS BRITISH SOLDIERS LOOKING FOR POSSIBLE SNIPER (5 SHOTS) 0.49 4. CU BULLET ON GROUND/ SV BRITISH SOLDIERS (2 SHOTS) 0.58 5. CU BLOOD STAINS 1.05 6. SV/CU SOLD
  • Embargoed: 7th July 1999 13:00
  • Keywords:
  • Location: PRISTINA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA
  • City:
  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVARQ0FKYSO2BMFG6YQC4M4SWPV
  • Story Text: A Serb man as been wounded by undentified gunmen in
    the centre of the Kosovo capital Pristina.

    Serbs returning from Serbia and unable to get to their
    homes have set up a refugee camp in the Kosovo Polje
    neighbourhood of Pristina.

    A British patrol arrived on the spot seconds after the
    shooting incident on Tuesday (June 22).

    The wounded man was immediately taken to hospital and
    British troops launched an investigation.

    A British officer said it appeared that three shots were
    fired.The man was rushed away to hospital by other civilians.

    Serbs who had left Kosovo fearful of ethnic Albanian
    reprisals, and were staying in the town of Nis, have been
    turned back to Kosovo by the Serb authorities who told them it
    was safe to return to their homes in the province.

    Several hundred Serb refugees are staying in the Serb
    enclave of Kosovo Polje, on the outskirts of the capital
    Pristina, after they realised it was not yet safe for them to
    travel back to their home towns of Pec and Prizren.

    The Serb-led administration of Kosovo Polje are setting
    up a temporary refugee camp in the village, preparing to
    accomodate several thousand refugees fleeing from various
    parts of Kosovo.

    Several dozen tents have been brought into the village
    with the help of the Serb community and the Serb Red Cross.

    The local mayor Dobritsa Lazir has also given away a school
    building to accomodate the refugees.

    Lenka Andrevic, who lost most of her family as she fled
    Prizren, said she was too old and ill to travel any further.

    She added they were put on buses in Nis and transported
    back into Kosovo without their consent.

    Zora Stoyanovic, also from Prizren, placed photographs of
    her family on a bed at the camp.She said she was desperate to
    go back home as she didn't know where the rest of her family were.


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