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Kosovars killed in K-FOR crash

September 18, 2000
Web posted at: 7:05 AM EDT (1105 GMT)

PRISTINA, Kosovo -- An investigation
has begun into a collision between a car
and a K-FOR armoured personnel carrier
in which four Kosovo civilians were
killed.

The K-FOR vehicle, under the command
of Norwegian peacekeepers, was hit
head-on, according to the NATO-led
force.

The dead -- two women, a man and a three-year-old child -- were travelling
south
in the direction of Pristina. Their vehicle was virtually crushed in the
collision.

None of the passengers in the APC were hurt.

Another Kosovo civilian was injured in the crash and taken to the hospital at
Camp Bondsteel, the main U.S. military base in the province.

International peacekeepers are helping to secure Kosovo ahead of Yugoslavia's
presidential and parliamentary elections next week.

Opinion polls show President Slobodan Milosevic, who has been in power for the
last 12 years, trailing the main opposition candidate, Vojislav Kostunica.

On Thursday a convoy of cars carrying Kostunica was attacked by supporters of
Milosevic in the Kosovo town of Mitrovica, where tension between the ethnic
Albanian majority and Serb minority has previously exploded into violence.

Kostunica, the Democratic Opposition of Serbia candidate, was pelted with
tomatoes and stones as he tried to address a gathering in the town's main
square.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.