Five Serbs were shot dead and several more wounded in a machine gun attack on a suburb of Kosovo's capital, Pristina, yesterday evening, writes Chris Stephen.
British and allied troops of NATO's Kfor went on alert in the capital following the killing at Kojlovica, a village that is effectively a suburb of the capital.
"At twilight today five or maybe six Serbs were killed," said the government media centre director Mr Radovan Urosevic. He said units of the Kosovo Liberation Army were responsible, and that KLA units were taking advantage of Serb withdrawals. "Kfor is providing a gap between the Serb withdrawal and its deployment which makes the perfect ground for the KLA to infiltrate and jump between."
Pristina was last night tense after a drive-by gunman fired a burst of machine-gun fire outside the base of the British paratroopers at Pristina University. And German troops were on high alert in the south-eastern town of Prizren, with reports of skirmishing between Serbs and guerrillas.