Relief workers in Albania have said 20,000 refugees have entered the country in the last 24 hours and that an estimated 50,000 others are making their way to the frontier. They say that they have found signs of malnutrition in some children. Earlier today, five refugees, three children, their mother and grandmother, were reported to have been killed by a Serb landmine while trying to flee. A spokesman for the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe said that the car exploded in flames about twenty yards before the border crossing at Morina.
The car was part of a convoy that had brought about fifteen hundred refugees across the border. The Yugoslav authorities closed the Border after the mine explosion. The United Nations refugee agency says that one person was killed and twenty-two others were wounded when Serb forces fired a mortar bomb at a line of Kosovo refugees waiting to cross into Albania. The mortar hit a bridge in the so-called no-man's land between the two Borders.
There has, however, been no let-up in the number of ethnic Albanians fleeing Kosovo. International monitors say that up to 25,000 refugees entered neighbouring Albania and Macdonia yesterday. Angela Walker of the World Food Programme said that the health of some of the children was the worst seen since the crisis began.
