13 SERB SOLDIERS AND POLICEMEN KILLED DURING SUNDAY'S CLASHES

TIRANA, May 17 (Hina) - At least 10 Serb soldiers and policemen were killed in clashes with the Kosovo Liberation Army on Sunday when Serbs attacked the village of Dyze, near the northern Kosovo town of Podujevo, Radio Tirana quoted the KLA news agency as saying. According to the same sources, another three Serb policemen were killed on Sunday when KLA fighters entered the northern town of Mitrovica to protect the remaining ethnic Albanian population. The fighting occurred when Serb forces surrounded the residential area of Tavnik and tried to expel civilians toward the central bus station. The Kosovapress news agency reported that Serbs attacked Albanian- populated villages in the area of Drenica forcing 20,000 people to leave their homes. Radio Tirana said Serbian forces had killed at least 100 Albanian and Gypsy civilians during their attacks on the villages of Velika Krusha and Negavci near Orahovac at the end of the last month. Dozens of civilians in the area have been missing since then. According to some estimates, 700,000 ethnic Albanians have remained in Kosovo. Most of them are living in the open without sufficient supplies of food, medicines and water. (hina) jn ms