KOSOVO: MITROVICA: BITTER CLASHES LEAVE 3 DEAD (V)

Описание: (4 Feb 2000) Voice and effects
VOICED BY: Louise Bates

Tensions are still running high in the divided Kosovan town of Mitrovica after bitter clashes left three people dead on Thursday.

On Friday morning, French troops fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of ethnic Albanians who pelted the peacekeepers with stones.

Three Albanians were killed during Thursday's violence and grenades were thrown at two Serb cafes in separate incidents in the Serb-controlled area of the city.

VOICE-OVER:

0003 International attention may no longer be focused on Kosovo, but the northwestern city of Mitrovica, like so many others, remains divided.

0010 The latest violence between Serbs and ethnic Albanians has left three people dead and K-FOR peacekeepers struggling to maintain order.

0018 SOUNDBITE: (Albanian) SUPER CAPTION: Bajram Rexhepi, Mayor of Mitrovica

0021 The Mayor of Mitrovica, who has agreed to impose a curfew on the city, said it had been a night of chaos.

0027 Two grenade attacks, which injured 21 Serbs, led to crowds of angry Serbs and ethnic Albanians facing each other on opposite sides of the two bridges which divide this city.

0039 Some of Mitrovica's elderly residents were clearly shaken by the return to violence.

0045 As he ventured out into the city with, this ethnic Albanian man said it had been a terrible night.

0049 UPSOUND: (Albanian) SUPER CAPTION: Ethnic Albanian man

0056 And there was no easing of tensions on Friday morning.

0100 Ethnic Albanian youths pelted French military vehicles with stones and blocked two French tanks from crossing to the north of the city.

0108 The troops responded with barrages of tear gas.

0111 These latest incidents come after a rocket attack on a U-N bus on Wednesday, which killed two Serbs and wounded three others.

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