Ethnic Albanian refugees reaching northern Albania from Kosovo yesterday told UN officials that villages around the town of Pec had been under heavy shelling and up to 300 people had fled.
Mr Kris Janowski, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said a group of 14 Kosovo refugees, including four with gunshot wounds, had crossed into Albania.
The refugees, who included three children separated from their parents as crowds dispersed after reportedly coming under gunfire, reported that 12 more Kosovo refugees were lost.
But there was confusion about the exact site of the shelling and how long it had continued, Mr Janowski said.
France and Britain have prepared a draft resolution on the Kosovo crisis to put to the UN Security Council, the French Foreign Ministry said. "We took the initiative with Britain to draft a Security Council resolution aimed at implementing the declaration of the Contact Group" after it met in Bonn on Wednesday, a spokesman said in Paris.