ALBANIA/MACEDONIA: AN ALBANIAN VILLAGE NEAR THE BORDER WITH KOSOVO COMES UNDER MORTAR FIRE FROM YUGOSLAVIA AS KOSOVO REFUGEES CONTINUE TO FLEE

Record ID: 565823

  • Title: ALBANIA/MACEDONIA: AN ALBANIAN VILLAGE NEAR THE BORDER WITH KOSOVO COMES UNDER MORTAR FIRE FROM YUGOSLAVIA AS KOSOVO REFUGEES CONTINUE TO FLEE
  • Date: 1st May 1999
  • Summary: MORENO, ALBANIA (APRIL 30, 1999) (REUTERS) 1. LV VEHICLES WITH REFUGEES FROM THE SERB SIDE WAITING TO MOVE 0.05 2. SLV REFUGEES ON THE BRIDGE OUTSIDE THEIR CARS 0.08 3. SLV ALBANIAN SIDE, TRACTORS WAITING 0.12 4. SV CHILDREN RECEIVING DRINKS 0.12 5. SV ALBANIAN MAN HOLDING SIGN LOOKING FOR RELATIVES 0.28 6. MCU (English) RAY WILKINSON OF THE UNHCR SAYING: "The tented capacity in Kukes in the camps is already pretty full - some of the community centres which housed people before have been closed, they are going to have to be reopened. We have been living on a knife edge and we continue to live on a knife edge and of course this is what we were fearing, predicting. If it continues like this it is going to be really, really serious for everybody." 0.53 7. SLV MORE OF REFUGEES AT BORDER 0.57 KUKES, ALBANIA (APRIL 30, 1999) (REUTERS) 8. PAN NIGHT VIEWS: NEW REFUGEE ARRIVALS IN MAIN SQUARE 1.04 9. MCU REFUGEE WOMEN HUGGING 1.13 10. SLV/CU REFUGEES ON THE GROUND (2 SHOTS) 1.25 11. SLV OF AID WORKERS SETTING UP TENTS 1.31 12. SV PEOPLE SETTLING DOWN IN TENTS 1.37 KAMINIZE, ALBANIA (APRIL 29, 1999) (REUTERS) 13. GV KOSOVO SEEN FROM ALBANIAN SIDE, HILL IN PLENIC - ALLEGEDLY SERBIAN FIRE BASE 1.43 TROPOJE, ALBANIA (APRIL 30, 1999) (REUTERS) 14. SV WOUNDED KLA SOLDIER ON A STRETCHER CARRIED FROM MILITARY VEHICLE TO HOSPITAL (2 SHOTS) 2.00 15. SV ANOTHER WOUNDED SOLDIER HELPED INTO HOSPITAL 2.09 16. MCU KLA SOLDIER WITH SHRAPNEL WOUND TO MOUTH 2.16 17. SV/MCU MEDICAL STAFF ATTENDING WOUNDED SOLDIER (2 SHOTS) 2.25 18. CU/SV WOUNDED SOLDIER ON BED WITH DRIP (2 SHOTS) 2.33 19. SLV HOSPITAL CORRIDOR 2.38 BAJRAM CURRY, ALBANIA (APRIL 30, 1999) (REUTERS) 20. SLV/SV/LV OF WOUNDED KLA SOLDIERS BEING CARRIED TO ALBANIAN MILITARY HELICOPTER/CHOPPER TAKING THEM TO TIRANA (6 SHOTS) 3.15 NEAR BLACE, MACEDONIA (MAY 1, 1999) (REUTERS) 21. GV OF MOUNTAINS COVERED IN SNOW WITH REFUGEES WALKING ACROSS MOUNTAINS TOWARDS MACEDONIAN BORDER (2 SHOTS) 3.27 22. LV OF REFUGGES GATHERED NEAR VILLAGE 3.32 23. LV OF A BORDER POST IN BLACE 3.37 24. LV OF A GROUP OF REFUGEES GATHERED AT BLACE CHECKPOINT 3.42 25. LV/SLV OF REFUGEES AT THE CHECKPOINT, REFUGEES CROSSING THE BORDER (6 SHOTS) 4.13 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 16th May 1999 13:00
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  • Location: MORENO, KUKES, KAMINIZE, TROPOJE AND BAJRAM CURRI, ALBANIA; NEAR BLACE, MACEDONIA
  • City:
  • Country: Macedonia Albania
  • Reuters ID: LVA78GPSCLUF2YFZBGZS4PBUCWUC
  • Story Text: An Albanian village near the border with Kosovo on
    Saturday came under mortar fire from Yugoslavia, as thousands
    of Kosovars continued to flee the troubled region.

    The refugees have been pouring across the borders at
    such a rate in recent days that existing refugee camps have
    found they are reaching full capacity and may not be able to
    cope any more.

    UNHCR spokesman Ray Wilkinson told reporters on Saturday
    (May 01) that the refugees in the camps were living on a knife
    edge as more and more people were arriving in such huge numbers.

    Among the thousands of refugees who continued crossing
    into neighbouring Albania and Macedonia on Saturday (May 01)
    were soldiers from the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), wounded
    in the attacks on the border.

    On Saturday morning two rockets landed near the village
    of Letaj and Zahrishti, around 10 km (six miles) further south.

    Both villages are in the Kukes area of northern Albania,
    where hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees have
    crossed from Kosovo forced out by the "ethnic cleansing" drive
    by Serb police and paramilitaries.

    The area has been increasingly used by fighters from the
    Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) which has been launching raids
    against Serb forces and engaging them daily in skirmishes and
    ambushes.


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