CANADIAN TROOPERS ON GUARD DUTY NEAR MASACRE SITE, 1999-07-24 (photo)

Canadian troopers keep watch near an armoured car near the village of Gracko July 24. Overnight a British patrol found the bodies of ethnic Serb farmers who were found shot dead in a corn field close to the village. It was the bloodiest single incident in Kosovo since KFOR peacekeepers arrived in mid-June to restore security after the withdrawal of Yugoslav security forces. KFOR's main problem has been ethnic Albanian revenge attacks on Serbs. British military police have been combing the site of the shootings, close to the village of Gracko about 10 km (six miles) south of the capital Pristina, since the early hours of the morning, soldiers near the scene told reporters. NSO