FIVE ALBANIANS KILLED IN KOSOVO BORDER INCIDENT

( Editorial: --> 4466 ) PRISTINA, Aug 18 (Hina) - Five Albanians were killed in clashes with Yugoslav border police between Monday night and early Tuesday morning, says the pro-Serbian government Media Centre in Pristina. It said the incident occurred on the Albanian-Yugoslav border west of the Kosovo town of Prizren, when 20 or so armed Albanians tried to illegally enter the southern Yugoslav province. The centre as usual did not give figures on Yugoslav casualties. Meanwhile, Kosovo Albanian sources in Pristina have reported that the situation in the province was calmer on Tuesday, while smaller clashes were recorded in the areas of Djakovica, Decani and Suva Reka. However thousands of refugees remain in a very difficult situation. Local Albanian sources in Djakovica said the situation was very tense in the town because of a shortage of food and medicine for about 60,000 refugees. There is a similar difficult situation in other parts of western Kosovo. (Hina) mbr 182359 MET aug 98