Ethnic Fighting Kills 8; Riots Erupt in Kosovo After 2 Boys Drown and a 3rd Is Missing

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › March 18, 2004

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KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) - Rioting swept parts of Kosovo Wednesday after ethnic Albanians blamed Serbs for the drowning of two boys. The violence left eight dead and hundreds injured in one of the bloodiest days since the end of the Kosovo war in 1999.

Melees broke out in every major city in the province as well as several enclaves where Serbs have eked out a sheltered existence since the war ended. Serb homes, churches and cars were set on fire as ethnic Albanians rampaged in revenge.

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Ethnic Fighting Kills 8; Riots Erupt in Kosovo After 2 Boys Drown and a 3rd Is Missing

Most of the casualties occurred where the violence erupted - the ethnically divided city of Kosovska Mitrovica as the two sides threw rocks and charged at each other and then opened fi...

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