UN POLICE OFFICER KILLED IN KOSOVO BLAST
ONASA News Agency - January 13, 2005
PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro, Jan 13 (ONASA - AFP) - A Nigerian police officer
working with the UN mission in Kosovo was killed Thursday when his car exploded
in the southern town of Prizren, police said. UN police spokesman Ken Sticeu
refused to speculate on the cause of the blast, which killed the officer as he
was driving to work. "The investigation of the cause of the explosion is not
finished," he said. UN mission chief Soren Jessen-Petersen said he was "shocked
with this tragic incident" and expressed his condolences to the family of the
police officer, whose name has not been released. The explosion took place near
the central bus station and the biggest shopping center in Prizren. "A few
witness said the blast was so huge that some parts of the officer's body were
spread widely in different directions," said local journalist Refki Alia, who
went to the scene shortly after the explosion. Some 3,500 foreign police serve
in Kosovo, a southern province of Serbia that has been under UN administration
since 1999 after a war between Serbian forces and ethnic Albanian separatists.
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