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KFOR Troops Seize Arms, Bomb-Making Equipment in Serb Enclave

PRISTINA, Sep 20, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo
found arms and bomb-making equipment during an overnight search in the Serb
enclave of Gracanica, a spokesman said on Tuesday.

The search was ordered just five days ahead of federal Yugoslav elections, which
international observers fear could be a source of increased tensions in the
majority-Albanian province.

Two hundred Swedish and British soldiers with the KFOR peacekeeping force were
involved in the operation, which began at 11:45 PM (2145 GMT) and finished
Tuesday morning, KFOR spokesman Captain Tim Serrell-Cooke told AFP.

Situated around 10 kilometers (6 miles) south of Kosovo's capital Pristina, the
central town of Gracanica is home to one of the largest Serb communities
remaining in the Yugoslav province.

KFOR did not say how many weapons were confiscated during the raid.

The head of the UN administration in Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner, was scheduled to
give a joint press conference with KFOR Commander General Juan Ortuno on the
arms seizure at 5:30 PM (1530 GMT).

In another incident, a Serb man was seriously injured late Monday when a grenade
was thrown into his house in the ethnically-mixed town of Kosovo Polje, to the
west of Pristina, a spokesman for the UN police force said.

Kosovo has been administered by the United Nations since the end of the NATO
bombing campaign which forced Yugoslavia to withdraw its armed forces from the
province in June 1999. KFOR was mandated to perform peacekeeping duties in the
province.


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