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Bomb Damages Kosovo Monument
PRISTINA, Serbia (Reuters) - A bomb rocked Kosovo's capital early Saturday and damaged a monument symbolizing former Yugoslav
leader Josip Broz Tito's ideal of ethnic harmony among his people, NATO-led ''KFOR'' peacekeepers said.
The explosion, which occurred at 3:22 a.m. in central Pristina, rattled windows and woke people across the city. It badly damaged the
base of the reinforced concrete monument, which local residents said was erected in 1961.
There were no reports of injuries as a result of the blast and no immediate indication who was responsible.
British KFOR troops sealed off the site and told reporters that a quantity of undetonated explosive remained near the monument, erected as a symbol to
''Brotherhood and Unity,'' a Tito slogan for harmony among Yugoslav peoples.
British KFOR explosives experts then removed the explosives using a small remote-controlled, tracked robotic device.
The explosives team said the bomb was amateurish and had been made from aging military explosives with an alarm clock used as a timing device.
A KFOR helicopter with a searchlight circled the area of the explosion at low level for some time after the explosion.
U.N. police were stopping and inspecting cars in the center of Pristina in a search for the culprits.
Attacks on religious and cultural monuments in Kosovo have been declining in recent weeks but sporadic incidents -- usually ethnic Albanian assaults on Serb
monuments -- do still occur.
KFOR says person-on-person ethnic violence has dropped off significantly, a claim vigorously disputed by the dwindling Serb minority here.
This southern Serbian province, reckoned to be 99 per cent ethnic Albanian in the wake of a year-long guerrilla war and nearly three months of NATO air strikes, is
currently under United Nations administration.
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