Serious Attacks Mar Kosovo Peace      September 5, 1999

PRISTINA (Reuters) - An ethnic Albanian truck driver was killed and
                     two ethnic Albanian civilian bus passengers were wounded in separate
                     rocket-propelled grenade attacks in Kosovo at the weekend,
                     NATO-led KFOR peacekeepers said Sunday.

                     KFOR said the truck driver was killed on the road between Mitrovica
                     and Leposavic in northern Kosovo early Sunday morning. A female
                     passenger in the truck was slightly injured and taken to hospital by
KFOR troops.

A Gniljane city bus en route to Ranilug was attacked Saturday evening and two wounded
passengers were taken by passing civilians for medical treatment. Other buses travelling that
stretch of highway have been attacked in the past.

At least two other potentially serious incidents occurred in the southern Yugoslav province without
apparent casualties or significant damage.

Two anti-tank rockets were fired early Saturday in the vicinity of the Pec Patriarchate in western
Kosovo, where Serbs have been seeking shelter in recent weeks. The Patriarchate was not
damaged and there were no casualties.

Seven mortar rounds were fired in Dobrotin, 12 km (seven miles) south of Pristina, Kosovo's
capital, Saturday. KFOR troops deployed in response and found a mortar base plate in the
nearby village of Smolusa, but the culprits escaped.

Attacks on Kosovo's small remaining minority population, which consists mostly of Serbs, have
received considerable media attention in recent weeks.

But as the incidents Saturday and Sunday indicate, majority ethnic Albanians also are coming
under attack.

KFOR and the U.N. mission here insist that overall levels of violence are declining sharply and
that Serb are beginning to return to Kosovo.

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