Five abducted in Orahovac, Kosovo

BELGRADE -- Five recently abducted Serbs from Orahovac, Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province, are reportedly being held in Djakovica by the so-called Kosovo Protection Corps, comprising members of the the ethnic Albanian terrorist organization formerly called KLA, amateur radio operators reported to Tanjug from Orahovac Friday.

The five men had secretly left the Serb enclave of Orahovac after learning that the car in which their wives and children were riding in the KFOR-escorted convoy attacked by ethnic Albanian terrorists recently, was burned down.

When they arrived in Djakovica, they were overheard speaking Serbian and were immediately surrounded and beaten up by a group of ethnic Albanians.

Barely alive, they were then handed over to the Protection Corps and can only be contacted by UNMIK representatives, the report said.