The international peacekeeping force in Kosovo, KFOR has said that two Serbs have been attacked and killed in separate incidents in the province's capital Pristina. It is suspected that ethnic Albanians carried out the killings. KFOR said that, in one incident, four people detained a Serb couple and killed the man before fleeing.
In the other incident, an elderly Serb woman was killed. Two ethnic Albanians were arrested in connection with the death. The killings are the latest in scores of such incidents, following the end of NATO's air-strikes against Yugoslav forces in the province.
In a seperate development, Russia sent the first 100 police officers to Kosovo today, where they will join the international civilian force, the Russian Interior Ministry said. They will make up part of a 3,000-strong international civilian police force under United Nations authority, charged with establishing law and order in the Serbian province.
Last week, the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, announced that 60 RUC officers will be sent to help keep order in Kosovo. They will be part of a 100-strong contingent that Britain is contributing to an international police force for the province. The RUC is being given a predominant role, because it is the only police service in the United Kingdom that is routinely armed, and because of its experience in policing civil disturbances.
