KOSOVO REFUGEES IN ALBANIA PREPARE FOR RETURN

TIRANA, June 11 (Hina) - The Kosovo refugees who were accommodated in Albania's inland region are approaching the border with Kosovo, Albanian sources reported on Friday. A long column of about 100 passenger vehicles with Kosovo refugees, wishing to be closer to Kosovo and their homes, set out today from Tirana and other towns towards the border with Yugoslavia. The first 140 Kosovars arrived on Thursday afternoon in Kukes, a town in the vicinity of the Albanian-Yugoslav border. There are at least 500,000 Kosovo refugees in Albania. Local authorities in Kukes, which accommodated 70,000 Kosovo refugees, are preparing to receive new arrivals. The Albanian authorities have already discontinued the already started evacuation of Kosovars from Kukes towards inland Albania. The Kosovo Liberation Army's (KLA) news agency Kosovapress today reported the withdrawal of Serbian forces from the area of Lap in northern Kosovo had continued. Withdrawing from several towns in south-western Kosovo, Serbian forces are leaving behind mine fields and burnt Albanian houses, the same source said. KLA sources said the massacred bodies of three Albanian civilians had been discovered in a well in the village of Kosturige near Pec. (hina) jn rml