Four Serbs are injured in a grenade attack in Kosovo

AP ^ | Sat Feb 8, 5:22 AM ET | AP

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Four Serbs are injured in a grenade attack in Kosovo

Sat Feb 8, 5:22 AM ET

PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro - U.N. police have arrested an ethnic Albanian suspect after four Kosovo Serbs were injured, two of them seriously, in a grenade attack, a U.N. official said Saturday.

The hand grenade was thrown from a passing vehicle against a shop late Friday in the ethnically mixed village of Mogila, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) southeast of province's capital Pristina, said Andrea Angeli, a spokesman for the U.N. mission.

Two Serbs inside the shop were seriously wounded and taken to hospital for treatment. The other two received light injuries, Angeli said.

The area was cordoned off by U.S. peacekeepers, and U.N. police later arrested a 26 year-old ethnic Albanian in connection with the attack, he said.

Meanwhile, late Friday another grenade was thrown in the Serb-dominated part of Kosovska Mitrovica, a tense ethnically divided city in the province's north. The target was a house owned by an ethnic Albanian. Its roof was damaged, and some windows were broken in the blast. No one was injured in that attack.

Kosovo has been run virtually as an international protectorate by the United Nations (news - web sites) and NATO (news - web sites)-led peacekeepers since June 1999, following a NATO air war that stopped former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic (news - web sites)'s bloody crackdown on independence-minded ethnic Albanians.

Although the number of ethnically motivated attacks has recently decreased, tensions between the ethnic Albanian majority and the Serb minority persist.

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"The hand grenade was thrown from a passing vehicle"

Another brave act makes for a happy day for the purveyor's of the 'religion of peace'.