<p><br /> Kosovo authorities say they have started digging next to a collapsed mine shaft searching for the bodies of more than 20 Serb civilians.<br /> </p><p><br /> They are believed to have been killed by ethnic Albanian rebels in 1998. Arsim Gerxhaliu, Kosovo's top forensics official, said the site was unstable.<br /> </p><p><br /> He said: "Some Serbian bodies have been buried during the war - this is all we know. Our job is to prove and to work on this information and to (find) if there is something inside or not."<br /> </p><p><br /> The Serbs were believed to have been abducted by ethnic Albanian rebels and kept in a nearby mine, west of the capital Pristina.<br /> </p><p><br /> Nato peacekeepers were also deployed to help local authorities investigate the site.<br /> </p><p><br /> Around 1,000 people, both ethnic Albanians and Serbs, remain missing from the Kosovo War.<br /> </p>
