Pristina - Serbian police turned back a UN aid convoy carrying supplies for 30,000 refugees from the Kosovo conflict yesterday as a senior UN envoy began an inspection of humanitarian conditions.
Mr Fernando Del Mundo of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said the eight-truck convoy was stopped by police at Slatina near Pristina and told to return to base.
The convoy had been trying to reach Pec in western Kosovo with provisions for people made homeless by six months of fighting.
Eight ethnic Albanian children and three women were reported killed and three elderly men injured when their tractor was hit by a Serb grenade on Wednesday in southern Kosovo, Albanian sources said yesterday.