The Saudi group has also made available two ambulances to be based in Prizren to move vulnerable returnees from Kukes. Along with the looting of camps that are being emptied, security problems persist along the roads. An AFOR helicopter later airlifted the victims to a hospital in Durres. The situation of the minorities continues to be a prime concern. They have refused to leave the area until they are transported out of Kosovo.
Conditions are appalling and children are practically sleeping in the mud.
Most of their houses have been burned and 219 of them said they would like to leave Kosovo immediately. KFOR accompanied three of them back to their home village of Zociste, where they saw that the Serb houses have been burned down. A Dutch KFOR contingent has been deployed there to protect around 1,000 remaining Serbs who have been unable to move about without armed escorts. On Friday, four more houses were burned in the Serb quarter of Prizren, above the seminary where 130 Serbs have taken refugee. Although there are hardly any Serbs left in Prizren, the latest incident is a clear message that Serbs are not welcome back.