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| Car bomb kills UN police officer in Kosovo |
| 2005-01-13 |
| A United Nations police officer from Nigeria was killed in an apparent car bomb explosion in western Kosovo on Thursday, a U.N. spokesman said. The officer died when his car blew up at 8:20 a.m. as he was driving to work in the town of Prizren, some 50 miles southwest of the capital Pristina. Police were checking "the nature of the explosive device," U.N. police spokesman Neeraj Singh said. A Reuters cameraman said German troops of the NATO-led peackeeping force KFOR had secured the scene in central Prizren as police investigators pieced through the wreckage of the red and white U.N. patrol car. Soldiers manned two checkpoints on the road to Pristina. Some more background info at link. |
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