PREKAZ, Serbia (Reuters) - Kosovo Albanian villagers on Wednesday exhumed the bodies of relatives killed in fighting with Serbian police and began the grisly task of identifying and reburying the corpses with Moslem rites. The bodies were dug up in a field near the village of Prekaz, in the mountains of central Kosovo, which police attacked last week in pursuit of fighters of the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Police and firemen buried the bodies on Tuesday after the families refused to inter them before independent autopsies were carried out by foreign pathologists. Ibrahim Rugova, leader of the biggest Albanian political party, the LDK, told reporters in Pristina that Albanians "were outraged that the Serbian authorities went ahead with their threat (to go ahead with the burials)." Western reporters at the scene said 53 coffins were exhumed by local Albanians from the muddy field. At least half the bodies, riddled with bullets, were so badly charred that they were beyond indentification. The LDK said 12 of the dead were children and 14 women. This reporter saw at least one child among the disinterred bodies. The victims included several men of the Jasari family alleged by police to be KLA leaders. Most of the villagers dug with shovels but one man scrabbled in the mud with his bare hands. The bodies were being reburied in the same field but pointing toward Mecca according to Moslem custom. Police stayed well clear of the activity.