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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Oct. 3 (UPI) U.N. Secretary-General spokesman Fred Eckhard said the Kosovo Protection Corps present no threat to Serbs in the province and ruled out any possibility of the United Nations considering the Serbs' demand for setting up their own protection corps.
Eckhard told Belgrade radio B2-92 on Sunday that the KPC was set up to disarm members of the Kosovo Liberation Army and provide them with work.
Meanwhile, in Kosovo, Roland Lavoie, spokesman for the KFOR international peacekeeping troops, told Beta news agency that a Muslim was killed and another wounded when they came under fire as they walked by a house in Pec last night.
Lavoie also said that KFOR soldiers found six rifles, a heavy 30mm machine gun, a 60mm hand-held rocker launcher, and ammunition during a search of a former KLA building in Djakovica on Saturday.
In Orahovac and Prizren, international forces seized two machineguns, five Khalashnikovs, three other rifles, seven pistols, three rocket- propelled grenades, 12 hand grenades and a large quantity of ammunition. They arrested six persons in connection with this find, Lavoie said and added that an investigation was under way.
The spokesman said a bomb was thrown at a gas station at the outskirts of Pristina on Saturday night but that there were no casualties in the attack.
He also said that KFOR had arrested two people for organizing an illegal checkpoint several kilometers west of Pec.
On Saturday, KFOR troops failed to halt large numbers of ethnic Albanian demonstrators from leaving Pristina and its surroundings on the way to Kosovo Polje, the Belgrade newspaper Blic reported.
The demonstrators had occupied the railway station in Kosovo Polje, 10 km (6 miles) southwest of Pristina earlier. They attempted to break through Serbian barricades on approach roads to villages around Kosovo Polje and stoned Serbian houses along the road.
KFOR troops positioned tanks between the Serbs and Albanians and helicopters were flying over the wider area of Kosovo Polje.
Serbian sources in Pristina told Blic the situation could grow into a larger conflict as a 5-kilometer-long (3 miles) column of cars with ethnic Albanians from Pristina built up on the road to Kosovo Polje.
The ethnic Albanians were intent on lifting the Serbian blockade of the most important Kosovo road from Pristina to Pec passing through Kosovo Polje.