 Once the two @-@ hour deadline had expired , the two sides began exchanging gunfire . In one of the houses , where most of Jashari 's extended family had gathered , a mortar shell fell in through the roof , causing many deaths . After a two or three @-@ day siege , the police captured the Jashari compound . Once inside , they discovered that Jashari and his brother Hamëz had been killed . Also killed were Jashari 's wife , Adilje , and his thirteen @-@ year @-@ old son , Kushtrim . Overall , approximately fifty @-@ eight Kosovo Albanians were killed in the attack , including eighteen women and ten children under the age of sixteen . Goran Radosavljević , a major in the Serbian Interior Ministry , said that " [ Jashari ] used women , children and the elderly as hostages . " Speaking of the attack , Yugoslav General Nebojša Pavković stated that it was " a normal policing action against a well @-@ known criminal . It was successful . The other details I don 't remember . " 
