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Deep Serb Incursion Into Albania
By GREG MYRE
.c The Associated Press
BAJRAM CURRI, Albania (AP) -- Yugoslav troops fighting ethnic Albanian rebels
swept over the border into Albania in one of their deepest incursions yet
from Kosovo, international observers reported today.
Witnesses also say a crashed Yugoslav MiG fighter, which was reportedly
downed Tuesday at the height of the fighting, is on the Albanian side of the
border near the village of Padesh, a spokesman for the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe said.
The area is too dangerous to approach the plane, and there was no word on the
fate of its crew.
Fighting between Yugoslav forces and the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army raged
all Tuesday well into nightfall. The sound of shells exploding on both sides
of the border were heard in the northern town of Bajram Curri, and heavy
plumes of smoke billowed into the air.
Twenty Serb troops occupied the Albanian border village of Perroi I Thanes,
OSCE spokesman Pier Gonggrijp said, quoting witnesses.
Later Tuesday, 50 Yugoslav army troops clashed with KLA forces in another
border village, Kasaj, said Gonggrijp.
The volatile area is near a cross-border corridor through which the KLA has
been sending troops and ammunition to reinforce their fighters in Kosovo,
part of Yugoslavia's Serbia province.
Some 40,000 Serb troops and special police are deployed in Kosovo, from where
more than 750,000 ethnic Albanians have fled.
Thirty wounded KLA fighters were hospitalized in Bajram Curri on Tuesday, and
KLA sources said three others were killed in the fighting,
``This is the deepest penetration (by Serb forces) and the longest we have
seen,'' said Gonggrijp, who has been in Bajram Curri since December.
Shelling and cross-border incursions are routine in the area, but the
fighting on Tuesday was exceptional.
There was no word on Serb casualties or whether all the troops have
withdrawn.
According to local KLA commanders and police, the Serb MiG fighter bombed
Padesh on Tuesday morning. As the plane approached, KLA fighters initially
thought it was a NATO plane, didn't take cover and were bombed.
The KLA and local police told Gonggrijp the Serb MiG was shot down by a NATO
plane.
There was no immediate comment from NATO headquarters in Brussels.
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