Land Mine Kills Man, Injures Son in Serbia
An ethnic Albanian was killed and his teenage son severely injured when one of them stepped on a land mine while collecting wood in southern Serbia, Yugoslavia’s main republic.
Burhan Salihi, 40, died immediately. His son Bujar, 16, was taken to a hospital, where he had surgery.
The Presevo Valley region, east of U.N.-administered Kosovo, was the scene of an insurgency by ethnic Albanian guerrillas that ended peacefully in May under a NATO-brokered plan.
The guerrillas mainly disarmed in exchange for political measures designed to boost the position of the locally large ethnic Albanian community.
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