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17-04-04, 16:42
US policewoman said killed in Kosovo jail shooting
Sat 17 April, 2004 15:49
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia and Montenegero, April 17 (Reuters) - Shooting has broken out at a prison in the northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica with a female U.S. police officer left lying motionless on the ground, a Reuters witness has said.
United Nations sources in the U.N. administered province said there were reports that a Moroccan police officer or prison security guard had opened fire on Saturday and that at least one American had been killed.
Another report said it was a Pakistani policeman or prison guard who had opened fire.
Other reports said there were two dead and several injured.
The deputy director at the health centre in Mitrovica, Milan Ivanovic, told reporters six U.N. police officers had been wounded, and five were in very serious condition.
"One international American policewoman is in a very critical condition," he added.
The Reuters witness said no ambulances stopped to pick the body of a the second U.S. policewoman which was covered with a coat.
He saw American members of the United Nations police force moving cautiously into the grounds of the district prison and cafeteria as ambulances and senior officers rushed to the scene.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=494741§ion=news
Er gebeuren vreemde zaken in Kosovo, met name de afgelopen tijd.
Sat 17 April, 2004 15:49
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia and Montenegero, April 17 (Reuters) - Shooting has broken out at a prison in the northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica with a female U.S. police officer left lying motionless on the ground, a Reuters witness has said.
United Nations sources in the U.N. administered province said there were reports that a Moroccan police officer or prison security guard had opened fire on Saturday and that at least one American had been killed.
Another report said it was a Pakistani policeman or prison guard who had opened fire.
Other reports said there were two dead and several injured.
The deputy director at the health centre in Mitrovica, Milan Ivanovic, told reporters six U.N. police officers had been wounded, and five were in very serious condition.
"One international American policewoman is in a very critical condition," he added.
The Reuters witness said no ambulances stopped to pick the body of a the second U.S. policewoman which was covered with a coat.
He saw American members of the United Nations police force moving cautiously into the grounds of the district prison and cafeteria as ambulances and senior officers rushed to the scene.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=494741§ion=news
Er gebeuren vreemde zaken in Kosovo, met name de afgelopen tijd.