Mobile Patrols to Rise in Sector of Kosovo

The new British commander of peacekeepers in central Kosovo has ordered more mobile patrols in an attempt to stop violence, a spokesman said. The announcement came a day after an elderly Serbian man was killed in a shooting incident and a Serbian child was killed and three injured in a hit-and-run case. Soldiers detained two ethnic Albanians in connection with the hit-and-run. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization-led KFOR force said the new measures had been agreed upon before the latest incidents as part of a security review. Since NATO and the United Nations took over responsibility for Kosovo--a province of Serbia, the main Yugoslav republic--in June of last year, Serbs and other minorities have been the targets of many attacks by members of the province’s ethnic Albanian majority, angry at years of Serbian repression.