NEW VICTIMS REPORTED AFTER SATURDAY CLASHES IN KOSOVO

PRISTINA, Jan 10 (Hina) - The situation in the southern Yugoslav province of Kosovo was calmer on Sunday, following yesterday's attacks in which one Serb and one Albanian were wounded, Albanian and Serbian sources in Pristina reported on Sunday. However, the situation is still tense in the northern part of the province, where members of the Verification Mission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) are negotiating the release of eight Yugoslav army soldiers, abducted on Friday by the Kosovo Liberation Army. On the night between Saturday and Sunday, a Kosovo Serb was seriously wounded on the road Mitrovica-Pec, when he and his wife were attacked by unidentified persons who opened machine-gun fire on them. The wife of the wounded sustained lighter injuries, while her husband was transported to the Pristina hospital, where doctors are fighting for his life. The Kosovo Information Centre yesterday reported the wounding of a 15-year-old Albanian during an attack of Serbian forces on Bradash, a village near Podujevo (northern Kosovo). According to the same source, eight Albanian families are blocked in Peran, another village near Podujevo, following a Serbian attack on Peran and four other villages in the same municipality. There have been no new reports on their fate. (hina) rml