Five Albanians shot dead in Kosovo

PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (CNN) -- Five members of an ethnic Albanian family have been shot dead in a roadside killing in Kosovo.

The family had been driving on a road west of the provincial capital Pristina on Tuesday when unknown gunmen stopped the car and launched a barrage of shots, killing the parents and three of their children.

A sixth person, their 16-year-old daughter, escaped uninjured but was being treated for shock, United Nations spokesman Andrea Angeli told CNN.

The shooting on Monday was one of the worst incidents of its kind in the troubled area since it came under U.N. control in June 1999.

Angeli said: "The attackers fired so many times that the car is riddled with bullets.

"The attackers fled when an U.N. vehicle carrying local police arrived about five minutes after the incident."

The victims were the Hajra family, including the 50-year-old father, his wife, 45, a son, 22, and two daughters aged 14 and nine.

It is not known who the gunmen were, or what the motive for the attack was. No arrests have been made.

Kosovo has continued to be plagued by violence since the Yugoslav province was placed under U.N.-administration in the summer of 1999 following NATO's 11-week bombing campaign.

Kosovo's Serb minority has been targeted in numerous revenge attacks by ethnic Albanians angry at years of Serb repression.

Eleven Serbs were killed in February when their bus was bombed in northeastern Kosovo.