UNMIK returns bodies of six Serbs killed in Kosovo to Serbia
Deutsche Presse-Agentur - March 25, 2005, Friday  

Belgrade - United Nations authorities in Kosovo handed over Friday what are believed to be the remains of six Serbs killed by ethnic Albanians in June 1999 to Serbian authorities.

"Five victims were killed by firearms and the sixth was strangled. Their bodies were exhumed from graves in Pristina and western Kosovo", Belgrade's chief pathologist Slavisa Dobricanin said.

The handover took place at Merdare checkpoint between Serbia and Kosovo.

The Serbs were killed in a hotel in the provincial capital Pristina by Albanian guerrillas amid the month-long lawlessness following the return of ethnic Albanian refugees, he said.

An estimated 800,000 Albanians returned to the province after the withdrawal of Serbian forces and the deployment of NATO peacekeepers in mid-1999.

Some 3,000 people including 600 Serbs are still listed as missing six years after the end of Kosovo war.

March 25, 2005 - 13:49:20 Central European Time
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