From our network from the field we got informed about latest events in the region of Llap (municipality of Podujeva), as follows:

'VJ' units went deep in the village Upper Llapashtica and they are now in the place called "Tabet e Llapashticis" where they are fortified. This is the place where Mr.Goran Zbilic was released from UCK and an UCK position.

The 'VJ' units are in the neighborhood Duriqi in the village Obranxho, too.

One unidentified killed person is lying dead near the gas station in the village Sekirac.

There are snipers in some higher buildings of the town of Podujevo, and due to this all streets are empty. A lot of people who fleed from their homes from the villages arrived in the town of Podujeva.

The regular line of the bus "Mentori Tours" with the firm "Valmiri" on it which goes from Podujeva in Prishtina, when he stopped in the village in Gllamnik, a Serbian police APC which was going along the main road shot from automatic machine gun in the glass windows of the bus. The passengers were terrified, but fortunately except one person who was scratched a bit in his ear from a bullet, nobody else got hurt.

In the village Kulino a truck which transports salt, was put from the police as a barricade in the street.

Information Service

Prishtina, 24.12.1998

Adem Demaci

General Political Representative of the Kosova Liberation Army (KLA)