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Suspect in Russian Soldier's Murder Rearrested in Kosovo

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Sep 29, 2000 -- (Agence France
Presse) A 15 year-old ethnic Albanian, suspected of killing a Russian member of
the Kosovo international peacekeeping force (KFOR), was arrested for a third
time Thursday after twice escaping from jail, a KFOR spokesman said.

Faton Hajrizi was arrested at dawn in a house in the northwestern town of Srbica
where he had been watched for several days, Colonel Yves Kermorvant said.

Hajrizi was first arrested on March 2 for shooting Russian soldier Igor Koshunov
as he stood near his vehicle in Srbica on February 29. Koshunov, 31, died two
days later.

On March 5, the small murder suspect slipped out of a toilet window and escaped
from the detention center at Kosovska Mitrovica, in northern Kosovo.

He was arrested a second time a month later, taken back to the Mitrovica
detention center where he then injured a leg attempting a rooftop escape and was
transferred, for security and medical reasons, to the detention center in the
provincial capital Pristina.

On April 19, the teenager managed to escape a second time.

Hajrizi was taken back to the Mitrovica detention center Thursday where United
Nations police spokesman Yvan de Sainte Foy said he would be kept under close
surveillance.

Some 22 suspected criminals have escaped KFOR detention in Mitrovica in the
past eight months. The latest jailbreak involved 13 Serb prisoners who escaped
on
September 2 and have not yet been found.

NATO-led KFOR troops have operated a peacekeeping mission in Kosovo since
Yugoslav forces withdrew from the mainly ethnic-Albanian province in June last
year after NATO's 78-day bombing campaign on Yugoslavia. A United Nations
mission has been running the province, which is still part of Yugoslavia, for
the past
16 months.