The VJ allowed a team of KVM observers to view the bodies, and photograph and record the names of the prisoners.[1] Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) observers were also escorted to the site, and reported seeing 31 bodies in camouflage uniforms with KLA insignia.[23] They identified one woman among the dead.[3] The KVM reported that another woman had been taken prisoner.[20] A KVM monitor told reporters: "Our initial feelings are that this was a normal military operation ... not a set-up."[20] The reported figure of 36 dead made the ambush the single deadliest war-related incident in Kosovo since the truce took effect two months before.[4][5][22] Eight KLA fighters had been killed near the site of the ambush just eleven days prior.[23]