PRISTINA, Yugoslavia - A large explosion damaged a Serbian Orthodox church in the center of Kosovo's capital early Sunday, a NATO spokesman said.
The blast was heard throughout Pristina, setting off car alarms and sending a large cloud of smoke and dust into the air.
The Hram Sveti Spasa church was under construction and had not yet opened.
Capt. Stefan Eder, a NATO spokesman, said there were no initial indications of any casualties. ''There are structural damages,'' he said.
Despite 35,000 NATO troops, violence has continued in Kosovo, a province of Serbia, Yugoslavia's dominant republic.
Kosovo's prewar population of 2 million was 90 percent ethnic Albanian, but Serbs consider the province their cultural and religious heartland.
Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo have been seeking revenge for Serb killings, rapes and forced removals that prompted NATO's air campaign, which ended June 10.
But Eder said officials did not know what caused the blast or who was involved.
The blast occurred after British Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Pristina on Saturday and urged ethnic Albanians to live in peace with rival Serbs.
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