NATO Sends Reinforcements to Kosovo After Ethnic Clashes Kill 22

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NATO Sends Reinforcements to Kosovo After Ethnic Clashes Kill 22, Injure Hundreds


PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) - NATO sent reinforcements to Kosovo on Thursday after 22 people were killed and hundreds injured in fighting between Serbs and ethnic Albanians in the worst violence since the province's 1998-99 war.


Arsonists on Thursday torched several Serb houses in Obilic, an ethnically mixed town west of the provincial capital of Pristina, forcing U.N. police and NATO troops to evacuate dozens of Serbs.

Bracing for more trouble, NATO mobilized extra units Thursday, sending about 350 troops to the province, mostly from Bosnia and Italy, to beef up the 18,500 international peacekeepers now in Kosovo.

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