Two hand grenades exploded outside a UN police station in northern Kosovo late Thursday, killing one person and injuring four others, officials said.

The simultaneous blasts occurred outside the station in the ethnic Albanian part of this divided town, 25 miles north of the province's capital, Pristina, said UN spokesman Gyorgy Kakuk.

It was the third attack in a week on a police station staffed by UN and local police.

While UN authorities had no motive for Thursday's blast, they said they believe the previous attacks are linked to the conviction in a UN court here last week of four former ethnic Albanian rebels on war crimes charges.

Kosovo has been administered by the United Nations and NATO-led peacekeepers since June 1999, following a 78-day alliance bombing campaign to force an end to a crackdown on independence-minded ethnic Albanians led by Milosevic's troops.

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