Sept. 1
— PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - A Serb man died of his
injuries after blasts in eastern Kosovo which also hurt three other Serbs,
a spokesman for the United Nations in charge of the province said on
Monday.
"During the night Milomir Savic, 35, died at Bondsteel camp from the
wounds sustained in last night's (Sunday night's) explosion," Andrea
Angeli told Reuters.
Two blasts, believed to be caused by hand grenades, occurred at 8 p.m.
on Sunday in the village of Crnica, near Gnjilane, which has a mixed
ethnic Albanian and Serb population. Four Serb men were injured.
Savic, who had been the most seriously hurt, was transferred to the
American Bondsteel base while the three others were taken to Vranje in
southern Serbia.
Sources said that KFOR, NATO-led peacekeepers in the province, had
seized some weaponry, but no one from the force was immediately available
for comment.
The blasts follow an attack in western Kosovo earlier this month in
which a suspected ethnic Albanian gunman killed two Serb boys bathing in a
river and wounded four other youngsters, provoking condemnation from the
international community and the Serbs.
The U.N. has administered Kosovo since 1999, after 11 weeks of NATO
bombing forced Serbia to end its military crackdown on the ethnic Albanian
majority in the province.
Belgrade says it has failed to provide security for the less than
100,000 Serbs who remained in Kosovo after nearly twice that number fled,
fearing acts of revenge for the deaths of some 10,000 Albanians in the
previous two years. | 
