US soldier found dead in Kosovo
Agence France Presse - December 6, 2003

PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro - A US soldier serving with the NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo (KFOR) has been found dead, a statement Saturday by the peacekeeping force said.

"Sergeant Daryl Brooks, 43, a personnel non-commissioned officer with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion 111th Infantry was found dead of a gunshot wound" early Thursday, the statement said.

Brooks was found in a concrete bunker in the US military Camp Monteith in eastern Kosovo by a soldier serving with his unit.

The statement did not say whether the death came under suspicious circumstances.

Over 2,000 US soldiers are part of 20,000-strong KFOR and are in control of Kosovo's eastern sector that borders Macedonia and Serbia.

Kosovo has been under UN and NATO control since June 1999.

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December 6, 2003 Saturday 11:04 AM Eastern Time

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