Subject: Hand grenade found near Kosovo polling station
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 5:20:04 PDT
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PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Oct 28 (AFP) - A hand grenade was
discovered early Saturday near a polling station in Pec, in western
Kosovo, as the Yugoslav province's ethnic Albanian majority voted in
landmark elections.
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE),
which is supervising the municipal polls in the UN-administered
province, said the grenade's discovery was the only "security
incident" to be reported Saturday morning.
Polls opened at 7:00 am (0500 GMT) in 30 municipalities
throughout Kosovo and were due to close at 7:00 pm (1700 GMT).
OSCE election director Jeff Fisher said voting in Pec was not
held up by the grenade incident.
"The only report that I have is that a hand grenade was found
near a polling station. There was no explosion and polling was not
disrupted," he added.