They were pointedly excluded from meetings of Serbian residents in the basement.
But both Albanian and Serbian residents felt the blast.
There are perhaps 2,000 ethnic Serbian residents of Orahovac.
They are, he said, heroes who saved the Serbian residents here from death at the hands of Muslim fanatics.
That has prompted many of Kosovo's Serbian residents to flee along with the withdrawing troops.
It was active from 1992 to 1997 with mainly Serbian residents of Split and prisoners of war being imprisoned.
The Serbian residents feel cut off and vulnerable.
The Serbian residents, while not wounded from battle, see themselves as the victims of negotiations that will return the area to the Croats.
Some Serbian residents said that there had been casualties in the exchange of gunfire when the police station was retaken.
Almost all of the new Serbian residents are living in homes from which Muslims were expelled.