Kosovo
Kosovo
War crime suspects hunted after jailbreak
MITROVICA, Kosovo -- Hundreds of NATO-led peacekeepers and U.N. police are searching for a group of Serb prisoners, many charged with war crimes, who escaped from a jail in the northern Kosovo city of Mitrovica.
Roadblocks have been set up on roads leading to Serbia, while dogs are also being used to track the men through a wooded area near the jail.
The province's United Nations administration said
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comes one month after three Serbs accused of genocide and war crimes escaped from a hospital in the city.
Since June 1999, Mitrovica has come under the remit of the Northern Command of KFOR, the NATO-led multinational peacekeeping force.
Four thousand troops under French control -- 2,500 from France, the rest from Spain, Poland, Russia, Belgium and the United Arab Emirates -- are responsible for maintaining the fragile peace.
The Associated Press & Reuters contributed to this report.