A resident from Emshir told the KIC by phone Serb police, backed up by armored vehicles, has effectively besieged the neighborhood for hours.

Albanian houses have been reported raided and a number of people taken out and arrested, while automatic weapons fire was heard in the area, sources said. Casualties are feared, but not confirmed.

Two Serb policemen have been reported shot at and killed in the southern suburbs of Prishtina today morning. The body of at least one of them has been seen by foreign media crews.

Three Albanian houses were burned from the shelling, local LDK sources told the KIC.

Four other villages - Llapashticë e Epërme, Llapashticë e Poshtme, Buricë and Penuhë - were reported targeted by the Serb armor overnight and today (Sunday) morning, too.

PRISHTINA, March 7 (KIC) - Just past seven o'clock in the morning today (Sunday), an Albanian resident was shot and wounded in his native village of Druar ('Drvar'), municipality of Vushtrri, in northwestern Kosova.

Mentor (Salih) Salihu, 22, was shot and wounded by Serb snipers, local LDK sources said.

The 70-year-old Albanian, Ibrahim Nemozha, resident of Druar, died Saturday evening while fleeing his village. The population was moving in search of safety towards the Çiçavica mountains, local LDK sources said.

On Saturday evening, Serbian forces opened heavy guns fire against half a dozen villages in the municipality of Vushtrri -Pantinë, Oshlan, Liqej and Balinc, but also Galicë, Dubovc and other villages along the Çiçavica massif being targeted. There has been no immediate information on casualties or material damage.

Heavy Serbian police forces moved into the village of Samadrexhë Saturday morning. They were deployed in a Serbian neighborhood in the area, from where they fired in the direction of Vushtrri villages of Pasomë, Ceceli and Dumnicë. The Albanian population of Pasomë, as well as part of the residents of Ceceli and Dumnicë fled their homes.

Some 15 Serbian police went to the house of a local Serb, Svetislav Rakicevic, in Banjskë village of Vushtrri Saturday noon. They unloaded weapons from their lorries and started digging trenches around the family compound, local sources said.