In one of the three apartment buildings here, the last Albanian resident is a 23-year-old who translates for the police.

The case remains one of the most painful episodes for the Albanian residents of the bitterly divided town.

But both Albanian and Serbian residents felt the blast.

Thousands of ethnic Albanian residents have fled their villages to escape shelling.

In Pristina, which had reverberated with the sound of the church bombing hours earlier, the Albanian residents seemed to give little thought to the explosion.

"Many settlements have been totally destroyed in an attempt to ensure that the ethnic Albanian residents do not return."

Some 300 troops will be on the ground as liaison teams between the Macedonian security forces and ethnic Albanian residents.

In 1873, it was a village of 250 households with 1,080 Albanian residents.

Police cars raced through the night, amid explosions and gunfire that terrified the Albanian residents.

There are also a number of Italian, Polish, Irish, and Albanian residents.