Clash in Kosovska Mitrovica: Two Serbs, one Albanian, one Unmik policeman injured
Two Serbs, an Albanian and an Unmik policeman were injured Monday overnight in clashes near the flashpoint bridge in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Wednesday, August 06, 2008
"The situation has been placed under control but it's still tense," KPS spokesman Besim Hoti said, adding Unmik and NATO had stepped up their prsence in the area.
Milija Milošević, police commander in northern Kosovska Mitrovica, said that the unrest started when several ethnic Albanians attacked Nenad Mihajlovic, a Serb, in the "Tri Solitera" neighborhood of the divided northern Kosovo town.
Milosevic said that at 01:20 CET, the assailants struck the 26-year-old several times after forcing him to pull over, injuring him and damaging the car.
After the incident, groups of Albanians and Serbs pelted rocks at each other, when an UNMIK policeman sustained light injuries to his face.
Before this, at around 21:30 CET, and Albanian also came under a rock attack as he drove his motorcycle close to the main bridge on the Ibar River, in the Serb, northern part of the town.
There have so far been no arrests in the case.
Kosovska Mitrovica is divided into northern, Serb-dominated part, with a number of ethnic Albanian and Bosniak residents.
Since 1999, no Serbs live in the town's southern, Albanian part.
