UPDATE 1: One Bulgarian policeman lightly injured in separate clashes in Kosovska Mitrovica
SOFIA (bnn)— Rampaging Albanians in Serbia’s UN-run province of Kosovo destroyed several houses sheltering Bulgarian military and police serving in international peace forces, the BGNES news agency reported Thursday.
No Bulgarians have been hurt in the attacks the report said. The houses were located in Caglavica, some 10 kilometers (6 miles) south of Kosovo’s administrative center of Pristina.
The assailants set the houses on fire and looted them, the agency quoted the Kosovo civil administration as saying. It said the attacks were not directed against the Bulgarian staff, but against the house owners, who were ethnic Serbs.
One Bulgarian policeman was lightly injured Thursday in separate clashes between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovska Mitrovica, the Interior Ministry said.
The foreign ministry warned Bulgarians to refrain from traveling to Kosovo.
A total of 110 Bulgarian police and military serve in Kosovo.