MITROVICA, Kosovo, October 16 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency has helped 92 members of Kosovo's minority Roma, Ashkalia and Egyptian (RAE) communities to return to their home district in the divided city of Mitrovica.

The returnees, from 18 families, arrived back in the city's southern district of Roma Mahala on Monday and Tuesday. They had fled from Mitrovica in 1999 and found shelter in northern areas of Kosovo as well as Montenegro and the city of Novi Sad in Serbia.

The 92 Roma moved into two new apartment blocks in Roma Mahala, which was destroyed after its 8,000 inhabitants fled eight years ago fearing attacks from extremists. The municipality of Mitrovica granted the land on which the new apartment blocks were built.

PRISTINA, Serbia: Two Spanish peacekeepers serving with the NATO-led mission in Kosovo died and two others were injured in a road accident, officials said Thursday.

Their car skidded off a road, overturned and slammed into a petrol station in the west of the province, police said.

The troops were returning to the Base Espana military camp, home to some 600 Spanish troops. The base is located near the town of Istog, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of the provincial capital, Pristina.