Gunmen shot dead four Kosovo Albanians in separate incidents and a fifth man's body has been found, a UN spokeswoman said Sunday, reporting the Yugoslav province's worst day of violence in many weeks.
In the northeastern town of Podujevo, 45-year-old Ahmet Voca was killed by an unidentified gunman who shot him once in the head in front of his home at 11:50 pm (2250 GMT) Saturday, Claire Trevena said.
Podujevo was the scene of tension between rival parties in the build up to last weekend's municipal elections, but Trevena said it was not known if Voca had any political affiliations.
Earlier a father and son were shot dead by another Kosovo Albanian in the northern village of Dobra Luka near Vucitrn, in what appeared to have been a feud between families, she said.
At 1:50 pm Saturday a Kosovo Albanian man driving in the southeast of the province was shot dead by unidentified gunmen who raked his car with bullets.
Also Saturday, a shepherd working near the village of Brod, two miles (three kilometers) from Kosovo's border with Macedonia, found a dead body. Investigators had not yet been able to approach the corpse as it was in a minefield, Trevena said
The deaths come exactly a week after Kosovo's first post war municipal election, which was held on what UN administrator Bernard Kouchner called "the most peaceful day since we (Kosovo's UN Mission) came here 16 months ago."
On Tuesday a Kosovo Serb man was shot twice in the back as he worked on the roof of his house near Vitina, southeast Kosovo, UN police said.
Kosovo has been run as a UN protectorate since June last year, when a NATO air war forced Yugoslav troops to break off their attempt to put down an armed ethnic Albanian uprising.
Since then the murder rate has fallen significantly, but the region is still wracked by ethnic and political violence and organized crime -- PRISTINA (AFP)
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