KOSOVO INFORMATION CENTRE: NEW VICTIMS INCLUDE REFUGEES

( Editorial: --> 6647 ) PRISTINA, Aug 28 (Hina) - Three members of an Albanian family were killed and other two were wounded during last night's shelling of the Kosovo village of Ladroviqe near Malisevo, a Kosovo Albanian source said Friday. Two elderly persons and a child died near Malisevo last night due to dire humanitarian conditions, the Kosovo Information Centre (KIC) said. It is suspected that a Serbian attack on the village of Senike near Malisevo caused new victims. Serbian forces have abducted ten Albanians from the village of Ngucate near Malisevo, KIC reported. Albanian houses in Banje, another village in the Malisevo municipality, have been set on fire. Tens of thousands of Albanians have fled eight villages in the municipality in the last three days. Almost 100,000 civilians are living in the open in the area between Malisevo, Suva Reka and Orahovac, facing dire conditions - lack of food, medicines and clothing, KIC said. The same source reported that Serbian forces killed two members of the Kosovo Liberation Army in Suva Reka while the police ordered a forced burial of an unidentified victim in the village. Kosovo Democratic Alliance sources from Suva Reka have reported that Serbian forces today continued setting fire to Albanian houses in 13 villages which had been shelled previously. Serbian forces have completely blocked all roads to Suva Reka, the same source said. (hina) rml 281906 MET aug 98