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Obili\u0107 \/ Obiliq<\/strong>
\nAn Albanian television station reported that on March 22 Serbian forces killed an elderly man from Strofce\/Stroc in the village of Ade\/Hade. In June, after the withdrawal of Serbian forces, KFOR found his remains under a bridge on the Hade\u2013Grabovica road.<\/p>\n

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Podujevo \/ Podujev\u00eb<\/strong>
\nA member of the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (SAJ) from Pri\u0161tina was killed in a KLA attack in the village of Glavnik\/Gllamnik.<\/p>\n

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Pri\u0161tina \/ Prishtin\u00eb<\/strong>
\nAt 7:20 p.m., an explosive device was thrown into the \u201cKoha\u201d caf\u00e9. An ICRC staff member, a guest at the caf\u00e9 who had been assisting in transporting the wounded to hospital, suffered a heart attack in front of the hospital. He died on the spot.<\/p>\n

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Prizren \/ Prizren<\/strong>
\nAt around 5 p.m., a 21-year-old Albanian student was abducted in \u0110ure Jak\u0161i\u0107 Street. A neighbor saw from her window that uniformed police officers forced him into a car, an \u201cAscona,\u201d with license plates PZ\u201323\u201321. The next day, his body was found on the Prizren\u2013\u0110akovica road. He had been killed by a gunshot.<\/p>\n

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Suva Reka \/ Suharek\u00eb<\/strong>
\nAt around 2:30 p.m., several KLA members entered the \u201cBalkan Belt\u201d shop near the post office in Suva Reka\/Suharek\u00eb and shot dead a shopkeeper of Serbian nationality.
\nPolice immediately organized a search for the perpetrators, focusing on Ramiz Sadiku Street. They broke down yard gates, searched Albanian homes, took money and gold from women, and between 3:00 and 4:30 p.m. killed 10 civilians who did not resist. Families of the victims and neighbors saw through their windows that police collected the bodies, burned traces of the killings, covered them with sand, and transported them by truck to an unknown location. Their bodies have not yet been found.<\/p>\n

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Srbica \/ Skenderaj<\/strong>
\nWomen and children fled Donje Prekaze\/Prekaz i Posht\u00ebm on March 18 and took shelter in Neighborhood III in Srbica\/Sk\u00ebnderaj. From there, on March 22, they heard gunfire from the village. Sofija returned to the village on March 24 and found her husband and his nephew killed.<\/p>\n

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