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Rampaging Kosovo Albanians set on fire houses hosting Bulgarian military, police

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.

And here are the wounded soldiers rescued by the US. I am shocked to see so much violence against peacekeepers. It seems there was little effort to make sure the hate was directed against only Serbs.

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Ten Irish soldiers were slightly injured yesterday while trying to prevent clashes between Serbs and ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

Around 80 Irish peacekeepers were drafted in to prevent some 3,000 ethnic Albanians from storming the Serb town of Kaglavica, close to Pristina.

A Defence Forces spokesman said the injuries suffered by the Irish troops were minor and their families had no reason to be concerned.

The attempted attack on Kaglavica came amid clashes between ethnic Albanians and Serbs throughout Kosovo yesterday.