Special Serbian units in Skenderaj separated men from women and children, took the men to the local football stadium and executed most of them, the CDHRF claims.

Meanwhile, the UÇK's (Kosova Liberation Army) news agency, Kosovapress, quoted eye-witnesses who managed to get out of the siege in Skenderaj, speak of a large number of executed Albanians, including prominent people in the community.

The shelling of Sallabajë, Godishnjak, Penuhë, Buricë, Konushevc, Llapashticë, Obrançë e Katunishtë was being carried out from Serbian positions at Dumosh, at 'Tabet e Llapashticës', in Peran as well as from military positions along the Prishtina- Podujeva highway. Reports that could not be immediately confirmed spoke of killed Albanians in the village of Buricë.

LDK sources in Podujeva told the KIC at 14:30 CET smoke was billowing from the attacked villages, such as Buricë, Konushec, Gllamnik and Llapashticë e Poshtme. Llapashticë has been under heavy Serbian shelling from 'Tabet e Llapashticës', they said.

There has been no immediate word on the consequences.

Meanwhile, a Serbian shell hit two Albanian houses in the village of Sfeçël, an area previously unaffected by the Serbian offensive in the Podujeva area. Part of the village people have fled their homes.

Reports said Serbian snipers have taken up positions in the village school at Gllamnik, just south of Podujeva, which straddles the Prishtina-Podujeva highway.

The population of Dumosh, where an airfield has been turned into a Serb military base for months now, have fled their homes, and seeking refugee in the villages of Balloc, Lladoc, Shajkoc and other villages still unaffected by the ongoing warfare.

The movement of the population in the municipality has been made virtually impossible - at least highly dangerous - as Serb forces have been sniping the communications routes, including back roads.

A grave situation has been reported in the town of Podujeva, home to 20,000 Albanians, whose population has been further swollen by arrivals, people displaced from their homes in the villages.

Beginning at 8:00 CET today, Serbian forces shelled the village of Polac, and then moved into it from the direction of Prekaz village.

Serbian forces have been burning Polac as well as other villages they have overrun: Prekaz, Lubavec, Prelloc, Dubovc and Mikushnicë.

At 10:00 CET, two ground-to-ground rockets hit Likoc. They were probably fired from Serbian positions at the Mokna mountains overlooking the area.

The Albanian houses in the villages of Kollë, Mihaliq and Brusnik, as well as part of Strovc, have been in flames and smoke.

A local LDK activist from the area, who managed to get to Prishtina, told the KIC today as many as 15,000 displaced Albanians have been huddled in the village of Qirez alone. Some of them have found shelter in the village school and mosque, respectively, and others have been living rough in the open or on tractor-trailed carts covered with plastic sheet.

Serbs pounded the village from the police station in Suhareka and their positions in Reshtan.

At around 22:00 CET on Sunday, Serbian forces shelled for an hour the villages of Peqan and Sllapuzhan. There was sporadic fire overnight, too.

Serbian police burned several houses in Reshtan, while the house which served as the seat of the OSCE KVM in the area was looted and vandalized in the wake of the departure of the verifiers on Saturday.

Serbian paramilitary police convoys have been stepping up movements in the area.

At 9:30 CET today, a column of 10 lorryloads of Serbian forces, as well as a number of other vehicles, arrived in the eastern town of Gjilan from the direction of Bujanovc, a town in Serbia.

A group of some 30 policemen stopped the two Albanians near President Rugova's residential house in Velania neighbourhood, and beat them up for half an hour.

Serbian media reported Vladimir Jeftic, Dejan Ivkovic, Aleksandar Milojkovic and Milivoje Nicic died in the attack.

Automatic weapons fire was opened from a passing car on the Serb police patrol in the Miladin Popovic street leading to the Gërmia resort on the outskirts of the town.

Qazim Gashi, Islam's brother, told the KIC his brother had left his flat at 17:30 that day.

Islam Gashi, father of five, apparently died of a gunshot wound to his head.