Four Kansans are recovering from wounds they suffered in a shooting at a prison in Kosovo that killed two of their co-workers.

The wounded Kansans are Ronald Hicks, of Hutchinson; former Topeka City Councilwoman Beth Mechler, 44; Carrie Bernhardt, 33, and Lori Reeves, both employees of the El Dorado Correctional Facility.

They were hurt Saturday when a United Nations police officer from Jordan opened fire on corrections officers who had just finished their first day of training at the prison in the town of Kosovska Mitrovica.

They were among 21 U.S. officers, two Turkish officers and one Austrian traveling in three vehicles when the shooting erupted.

The four Kansans were in Kosovo working for DynCorp, a subsidiary of Computer Sciences Corp. that trains police, corrections and judicial workers for overseas duty.

Bernhardt was moved Monday to an American military hospital in Germany. Her condition had been upgraded from critical Saturday night to serious but stable. She had worked at the El Dorado Correctional Facility for 10 years.

Hicks is a retired counselor from the Hutchinson Correctional Facility. He had been listed in stable condition after undergoing surgery on Saturday and will likely be hospitalized in Wichita, said Ken Roberts, his brother-in-law in Hutchinson.

Mechler, of Topeka, was scheduled to be released Tuesday from the Kosovo hospital, where she was treated for gunshot wounds, said her husband, Topeka police Lt. Randy Listrom.

Reeves was shot in the hand and was expected to return to the United States in the next several days. She began working for the Kansas Department of Corrections in 1988 and at El Dorado in 1991.