SERB FORCES LAUNCH NEW ATTACKS IN KOSOVO

PRISTINA, March 24 (Hina) - One member of the Kosovo Liberation Army was killed in Wednesday's clashes between the KLA and Serb Forces in the regions of Podujevo, Vucitrn, Kacanik, and Decani in this southern Yugoslav province. The Kosovo Information Centre (KIC) reported that Serb forces have been attacking the Drenica region, and particularly the Kosovska Mitrovica area since this morning. A large number of Albanian refugees arrived in Vucitrn. At noon, Serb forces entered the village of Donje Studine and set Albanian houses afire. Donje Studine residents and residents of another four neighbouring villages fled their homes and were headed towards Vucitrn. The Kosovo Liberation Army news agency "Kosovapress" reported that Serb tanks attacked three villages near Vucitrn, and added that a local KLA commander was killed in the attack. The head of the local committee for human rights in Srbica, Murat Musli, said the town of Srbica has been under Serb occupation for four days already, adding there was no information on people who remained in the town. Two Kosovo Albanians were killed in a coffee house in Kosovska Mitrovica on Monday evening when unidentified persons opened fire from machine guns, the KIC reported. Attacks were also launched on Albanian villages in Central Kosovo and near the Kosovo-Macedonian border. Serb sources have not yet commented on the attacks. (hina) it LML