NATO-led peacekeepers detonate WWII artillery shell in Kosovo

Associated Press, Dec 16, 2005 4:19 AM

 

PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro-NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo detonated an artillery shell left over from the World War II, police said Friday.

 

The shell, a 105mm Howitzer, was located close to a railway bridge in the northern part of the province, U.N. police spokesman Larry Miller said.

 

No one was injured and no damage was caused by Thursday's detonation, Miller said.

 

Kosovo has been administered by the United Nations and NATO-led peacekeepers since mid-1999, following a NATO air war aimed at stopping Serbia's crackdown on independence-seeking ethnic Albanians.