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Protesters set fire to the American embassy in Belgrade

Protesters in Serbia's capital, Belgrade, broke into the U.S. Embassy on Thursday and set some rooms on fire. The rioters were part of larger protests among Serbian nationalists opposed to the independence of Kosovo. A charred body was later found inside the embassy. At a briefing this afternoon, State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack said the body was not that of an American. He said all American embassy personnel have been accounted for. The only employees on the scene were local security guards. At least one Belgrade TV station reported that the body was that of a rioter. Additional news: The young man which body was found last night, after the demonstrations in Belgrade, has bean identified as Zoran Vujovic, one of the rioters, born in 1989 in Caglavica near Pristina, Kosovo.

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