Two foreign correspondents from Britain and Portugal were injured in an attack in Kosovo near the southern town of Prizren yesterday, and one of their drivers was killed, the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera said last night.
Ms Eve-Ann Prentice (40) of the London Times, who had been travelling in Kosovo with Irish Times correspondent Elaine Lafferty last week, and Ms Elsa Marujo, who works for Portuguese television, were travelling in two vehicles with other correspondents including the Corriere's Renzo Cianfanelli when the incident happened.
"Our reporter was involved in an incident and was injured but we don't know quite how seriously," the Times told AFP in London.
One of the drivers, Nemanja Radojevic, died in the attack.
Mr Cianfanelli told the Milanbased Corriere that he was unhurt, but did not say whether the group was hit by a missile or by artillery fire.
The attack took place yesterday afternoon at Krk Bunar on the road between Prizren and Brezovica, he said. Prizren was one of the towns targeted in NATO air raids yesterday.
Another man accompanying the group, identified as Mr Daniele Salvatore Schiffer, described by the Serb Information Centre in Pristina as "a French intellectual", was also wounded. Ms Lafferty told the Irish Times last night that Mr Schiffer had guided her and Ms Prentice in Kosovo last week. "He was taking journalists, for a fee, into Kosovo. Because of his reputation with the Serbs, he could negotiate our way through Serbian police and military check points," said Ms Lafferty, who is currently in Macedonia.
Meanwhile, in Albania, some 150 Kosovo men arrived at the border town of Morina yesterday, exhausted and emaciated, some with bloodied faces, after being released from a Yugoslav jail.
Many were afraid to speak to journalists, citing the case of one prisoner who had been savagely beaten in Mitrovica jail after his brother had given an interview to Albanian television on release.
Others described how they had been beaten in jail with sticks. The warders had stuck a photograph of US President Bill Clinton under their noses, shouting: "Where's he now, your saviour?"
Some collapsed on the ground on arrival, unable to move any further. All were trembling and close to tears.
The group, included two youngsters, one of them 14, had spent up to six weeks in Mitrovica jail.
They had been driven by bus yesterday to a point six km (four miles) from the frontier and were then left to walk the rest of the way to the Albanian border.
The ex-prisoners described how men were being brought into Mitrovica jail every day.