ALBANIA: ALBANIAN SPECIAL FORCES ARREST SUSPECTED (KLA) KOSOVO LIBERATION ARMY GUERRILLA NEAR TOWN CLOSE TO ALBANIAN/KOSOVO BORDER

Record ID: 566074

  • Title: ALBANIA: ALBANIAN SPECIAL FORCES ARREST SUSPECTED (KLA) KOSOVO LIBERATION ARMY GUERRILLA NEAR TOWN CLOSE TO ALBANIAN/KOSOVO BORDER
  • Date: 14th June 1998
  • Summary: BETWEEN BAJRAM CURRY AND TOPOJE, ALBANIA (JUNE 14, 1998)(RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. LAS ALBANIAN SPECIAL FORCES AT CHECKPOINT ON ROAD BETWEEN BAJRAM CURRY AND TOPOJE 0.14 2. SV ARMED FORCES AT CHECKPOINT 0.20 3. SV VEHICLE PULLED OVER/ POLICE CHECKING PAPERS/SLV CHECKPOINT (3 SHOTS) 0.37 4. SLV VAN AT ROADSIDE, KOSOVANS AROUND IT/POLICE MAKING KOSOVANS LEAN AGAINST IT (3 SHOTS) 1.04 5. SCU POLICEMAN SEARCHING JACKET AND FINDING GRENADE 1.18 6. SLV/SV KOSOVANS AGAINST VAN (2 SHOTS) 1.29 7. SV SECOND GRENADE FOUND IN JACKET/POLICEMAN HITS KOSOVAN IN STOMACH 1.43 8. SV KOSOVANS STANDING AGAINST VAN 1.51 9. SLV KOSOVAN ARRESTED, HANDCUFFED AND TAKEN TO VEHICLE 2.24 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 29th June 1998 13:00
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  • Location: BETWEEN BAJRAM CURRY AND TOPOJE, ALBANIA
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  • Country: Albania
  • Reuters ID: LVABELYQPUU94JIXBPZENDIFTKVC
  • Story Text: Albanian special forces have arrested a suspected Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) guerrilla, as he carried weapons near a border town close to the Albnania-Kosovo frontier.

    Heavily armed Albanian soldiers, mobilised from the capital Tirana, have stepped up security in the troubled region ahad of a rumoured visit by Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano.

    Police at the checkpoint on the road between Bajram Curry and Topoje on Sunday (June 14) confirmed the suspect was from Kosovo and that he was armed with two grenades.

    Since the civil unrest last year, security forces have struggled to maintain law and order while criminals and gun runners attempt to supply the KLA with weapons across the mountanous border region around Bajram Curry.

    Nano is thought to be coming to the area to deliver aid to refugees who have fled the conflict in Kosovo.
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