The violence quickly spread to other parts of Kosovo, with Kosovo Serb communities and religious and cultural symbols attacked by crowds of Albanians. Some of these locations were ostensibly under the protection of KFOR at the time. During the riots and violence, eight Kosovo Serbians were killed.
The sites of violence included[citation needed]:
* Belo Polje - Serb returnees attacked
* Caglavica - Serb houses set on fire;
* Kosovo Polje - Serb houses and a hospital set on fire;
* Lipljan - gunfights between KFOR and Albanians, four Serbs killed, remaining Serbs took refugee in Orthodox Church which was attacked;
* Pec - rioting in which UN offices were attacked; one Albanian killed by UN police.
* Pri?tina - all remaining Serbs evacuated or forced out
* Gnjilane - all remaining Serbs evacuated or forced out
* Cernica, Serb village near Gnjilane - three Serbs wounded
* Svinjare, Serb village near Kosovska Mitrovica - burnt houses
* Obilic - Serb houses burnt, all Serbs chased out
* Vitina - Attack on church prevented by US Army KFOR troops, Orthodox priest injured, demonstrators threw rocks at US Army soldiers and set fire to many Serb homes
* Drajkovce, village near ?trpce - two Serbs killed
* Grabac - Serbian village, most Serbians evacuated by Italian peacekeepers to Osojane Serbian village, some parts of Grabac attacked.
In a statement on March 18, the Serbian Orthodox Church reported that a number of its churches and shrines in Kosovo had been damaged or destroyed by rioters. These included:
Prizren:
* Our Lady of Ljevi? Cathedral (Bogorodica Ljevi?ka), 12th century was burned down on March 17
* Church of Saint Salvation (Sveti Spas), 14th century
* St. Hieromartyr George's Cathedral (Sv. velikomucenika Ðorda), 1887 housing the 14th century icon of Mary and an 18th century iconostasis
* Monastery of Saint Archangels from the 14th century
* Church of St. George Runovic, 15th century with 16th century iconostasis gates
* Ra?ka-Prizren Archdiocese
* Building of the Sts. Cyrill and Methodius Orthodox Seminary, 1880, sacked
Pec:
* Church of St. John the Baptist (Svetog Jovana Pretece i Krstitelja) set on fire March 17 in Pecka Banja village
* Belo Polje village church of St. Nicholas, 19th century
Ðakovica: Church of Our Lord's Ascension (Uspenja Gospodnjeg), 19th century, torched along with the parochial residence on March 17. Reports of Albanians clearing the ruins of the Church of the Holy Trinity, destroyed in 1999
Uro?evac: Church of St. Tzar Uro?
Kosovo Polje:
* Saint Nicholas in Kosovo Polje town, 19th century
* Bresje village church of St. Catherine, 19th century
Gnjilane: Church of St. Nicholas, 1861
Pri?tina: Church of St. Nicholas, 19th century, damaged and sacked
Vucitrn: Church of St. Elijah, burned down
Southern Kosovska Mitrovica: Church of Saint Sava set afire in the morning of March 18, adjoining Orthodox cemetery desecrated
Srbica: Devic Monastery, nuns evacuated by Danish soldiers, monastery pillaged and torched
?timlje: Church of St. Archangel Michael set on fire on March 19
Orahovac: Bela Crkva and Brnjak village churches burnt
Vitina: Two destroyed churches, in town and in village of Donja Slapa?nica
Obilic: Church set afire
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