PRISTINA – Kosovo police mentioned one individual was wounded when it opened hearth on Monday at a automobile that did not cease at a checkpoint and struck a police car, in what marked one other violent incident within the nation’s ethnically divided and risky north.
It occurred within the city of Leposavic close to the border with Serbia at one of many checkpoints arrange following a flare-up in tensions late final month. Serbian authorities mentioned each the motive force and the injured passenger had been Serbs.
“The police unit, which was on the checkpoint, whereas performing its police duties was attempting to cease a automobile, which … hit the Kosovo police car, endangering the lives of the officers,” Kosovo police mentioned in a press release.
It mentioned the automobile left the scene and an investigation into the incident was beneath manner.
Head of the Serbian authorities workplace for Kosovo Petar Petkovic mentioned that the incident occurred round 11.30 a.m., figuring out the injured man as Miljan D. and the motive force as Dusan S.
Ever since Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia in 2008, tensions have repeatedly flared up between the ethnic Albanian majority and about 100,000 ethnic Serbs, half of whom reside within the north and most refuse to recognise Kosovo’s independence.
Earlier this month, 1000's of Serbs took to the streets to protest after an off-duty Kosovo soldier shot and wounded two younger Serbs within the south of the nation.
Final month, an arrest of a former Serb policeman for an alleged assault of energetic cops set off a spherical of protests whereas tensions over Kosovo’s push to pressure some 50,000 Serbs within the north to surrender their Serbian license plates have simmered for months.
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