Kosovo Serb farmers under fire Beta

Kosovo Serb farmers under fire
Beta - October 27, 2003

SRBICA -- Monday – Unknown gunmen opened fire on a group of seven Serbs from village of Banja today as they headed to their orchards on tractors.

The apple orchards are located near a village populated exclusively by Albanians.

Village leader Milutin Kovacevic told media that the group was fired on from several different directions, adding that it was pure luck that no one was killed.

The Serbs hid in a nearby forest until Danish KFOR troops came to their rescue and escorted them home.

Banje and the neighbouring Suvo Grlo are the only two villages in the Srbica municipality still inhabited by Serbs.

They are completely cut off from the surrounding region and subject to frequent attacks by their Albanian neighbours.