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PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Sept 3 (AFP) - Kosovo on Friday was shaken by two blasts, a murder, an attack and the discovery by United Nations police of unexploded grenades near their headquarters in Pristina.
The discovery of the grenades, which teams of bomb disposal experts worked to make safe, nearly paralysed the Kosovo provincial capital.
By mid-afternoon, police reopened the main road leading to the headquarters of the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and the the Kosovo Force (KFOR), which had been closed to car and pedestrian traffic.
"At least one of the grenades had had its pin removed, and there may be explosives nearby," a UN police officer at the scene said.
NATO peacekeepers meanwhile reported that two explosions hit the Serb enclave in Gorazdevac, near Pec, but injured no one late Thursday.
A Serb also died late Thursday after being shot in central Pristina, KFOR said.
KFOR also found the body of a 40-year-old man whose ethnic background was not given on the road between the northeastern town of Podujevo and Pristina.
Also in Pristina, KFOR arrested Thursday two ethnic Albanians caught attacking a gypsy family.
In Rugovo, eight kilometers from southwestern Orahovac, KFOR seized more than 500 illegal arms, including a significant number of AK-47s.