Italian soldiers controlling the Pec sector were led by KLA guerrillas to the site of two mass graves of suspected massacre victims in the village of Korenica, near to Djakovica.

The area around the mass graves had been mined, and Kosovo Albanians who had been hiding in the area told the soldiers that they believed the graves contained the remains of some 120 males aged between 16 and 65. A second lower figure suggests between 60 and 70 men, were allegedly killed on April 27 as suspected Kosovo Liberation Army members.

Lush Duzhmani, 35, said that he had hid in the mountains during the massacre. "When I returned I saw holes covered over with earth and human limbs sticking out which had been gnawed by hungry dogs," he told the reporters taken to the scene by the Italian contingent.

The reporters travelling with the soldiers also saw the remains of a house which included up to five corpses, all of which were charred. They are believed to be victims of the same massacre.