y from the autopsy theatre," the team`s chief, Dr Helena Ranta, told Reuters by telephone on her way from Belgrade to Kosovo`s regional capital Pristina. "I understood that our X-ray unit is functioning and that they are X-raying those bodies that have already been autopsied." Ranta had urged a Yugoslav forensic team, which began work on the bodies on Tuesday, to wait for her team`s X-ray unit, saying that under internationally-recognised procedures, X-rays should be first step of any autopsy. "It should of course have been done before, and that was one of the reasons I suggested they should stop," she said. "But for some reason or other they didn`t so we have to live with that." Ranta said the Yugoslavs, who are accompanied by a visiting team from the former Soviet republic of Belarus, were expected to have performed 14 autopsies by the end of the day. The head of the team had

said he could not wait because there was a danger of the bodies decomposing. Ranta said the Finns who had already arrived had provided body bags. "So there should be no hurry and all Finnish forensic experts will be there by the evening," she said.