Serb rioters broke into the US Embassy and set fire to an office and police clashed with protesters outside after a large demonstration against Kosovo's declaration of independence.
The embassy said a charred body was found in the embassy after the attack.
"It was found at the part of the building set on fire by the protesters," embassy spokeswoman Rian Harris said yesterday.
She said all embassy staffers were accounted for and the body appeared to be that of a rioter.
Masked attackers broke into the US compound, which was closed at the time, just after 7 pm yesterday and tried to throw furniture from an office.
They set fire to the office and flames shot up the side of the building.
It took police about 45 minutes to appear at the scene, and firefighters arrived about the same time and put out the blaze. Police secured the US Embassy and surrounding area, blocking off all access.
The US Ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, said he was "outraged" by the attack and would ask the UN Security Council to issue a unanimous statement "expressing the council's outrage, condemning the attack, and also reminding the Serb government of its responsibility to protect diplomatic facilities."
More than a dozen nations have recognized Kosovo's declaration of independence, including the United States, Britain, France and Germany.
But the declaration by Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leadership has been rejected by Serbia's government and the ethnic Serbians who populate northern Kosovo
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