Two killed, 12 injured in Kosovo blast
An explosion killed two people and injured 12 when it tore through shops today in the capital of Serbia’s breakaway Kosovo province.
The explosion scattered glass and debris from a dozen shops on Pristina’s Bill Clinton Boulevard. Part of a building collapsed.
The cause of the blast was not known. It came at a time of rising tension within Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority over its stalled bid for independence from Serbia.
The territory has been run by the United Nations and patrolled by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization since 1999, when NATO airstrikes drove out Serbian forces to halt atrocities against ethnic Albanians.
Leaders of Serbia and Kosovo are due to hold direct negotiations on the territory’s fate on Friday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.
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