YUGOSLAVIA: ETHNIC ALBANIAN SNIPER DIES AND TWO OTHERS WOUNDED AFTER EXCHANGE OF FIRE WITH NATO LED PEACEKEEPERS IN MITROVICA

Record ID: 565973

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: ETHNIC ALBANIAN SNIPER DIES AND TWO OTHERS WOUNDED AFTER EXCHANGE OF FIRE WITH NATO LED PEACEKEEPERS IN MITROVICA
  • Date: 13th February 2000
  • Summary: MITROVICA, KOSOVO; YUGOSLAVIA (FEBRUARY 13, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. LV/SLV: OF KFOR TROOPS BLOCKING OFF ROAD IN MITROVICA (4 SHOTS) 0.36 2. SLV: FRENCH KFOR SOLDIERS PUSHING BACK ONLOOKERS 0.48 3. SV/LAS/LV/SV: KFOR SOLDIER LOOKING THROUGH BINOCULARS/ FRENCH KFOR HELICOPTER OVERHEAD/ FRENCH KFOR HELICOPTER HOVERING CLOSE TO GROUND/ITALIAN SOLDIER ON GUN-MOUNTED APC (5 SHOTS) 1.28 4. GV: SMOKE RISING FROM BUILDINGS/ MORE OF BUILDINGS AND HOUSES ON FIRE (3 SHOTS) 1.53 5. LV: FRENCH TROOPS SURROUNDING HOUSE WHERE SNIPER BELIEVED TO BE HIDING (3 SHOTS) 2.27 6. SLV/LV: MORE OF FRENCH KFOR TROOPS DOING MANOEUVRES; SMOKE RISING FROM BUILDING; TROOPS (6 SHOTS) 2.58 7. SLV: KFOR TANKS MOVING 3.13 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 28th February 2000 12:00
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  • Location: MITROVICA, KOSOVO; YUGOSLAVIA
  • City:
  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVABV8NP5YTIVRLTGKQ7FJN9K0WG
  • Story Text: One ethnic Albanian sniper died and two others were
    wounded after an exchange of fire with NATO-led peacekeepers
    in the Kosovo flashpoint town of Mitrovica on Sunday (February
    13).

    A KFOR spokesman said on Sunday (February 13) that the
    three snipers were captured by KFOR and that one of them later
    died from his wounds at a hospital.

    The spokesman said the three snipers were Albanian.

    He said the two wounded had been treated and were under
    guard at the hospital.The situation in the town was now
    quiet, he said.

    Earlier on Sunday (February 13), KFOR said two French
    peacekeepers were wounded by sniper fire as fighting erupted
    in the town divided between mutually hostile ethnic Albanians
    and Serbs.

    Machinegun and small-arms fire punctuated by explosions
    raged for about two hours near the bank of the river that
    splits Mitrovica into Serb- and Albanian-dominated sectors,
    defined by the Ibar River running through town.

    French members of the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force on
    foot and in armoured personnel carriers took up combat
    positions on the north side of Mitrovica, where Serbs
    predominate.

    At one point, French KFOR troops surrounded a house on the
    Serbian side of Mitrovica as a KFOR helicopter hovered
    overhead.Plumes of smoke rose from burning houses.

    As/French KFOR troops attempted to flush out the snipers
    Danish and Italian KFOR troops stood watch near the bridge
    itself.


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