Children Die In Pec Attack Beta

Children Die In Pec Attack
Beta - August 13, 2003

PRISTINA -- Wednesday – UNMIK has confirmed that two adolescents were killed and six wounded in an attack near Pec today.

A spokesman for the UN mission said that unknown gunmen opened fire on a group of young people swimming and playing at the Bistrica river beach.

A Kalashnikov automatic rifle was used in the attack, and the number of assailants has not been established.

Two Serbs, one aged eighteen and the other nineteen died in the attack and a nineteen-year-old Albanian was among the injured.

Locals told media that the attack had occurred despite the presence of UNMIK troops guarding the swimmers.