Kosovo Serb MP shot in flashpoint town
MITROVICA Kosovo (Reuters) - An unidentified gunman shot and slightly hurt an ethnic Serb member of the Kosovo parliament in a fresh incident in the divided northern town of Mitrovica, police said Monday.
It was the second act of political violence in Mitrovica in the past week, highlighting continuing tensions in the former Serb province, whose Albanian majority declared independence from Belgrade in 2008.
"The incident occurred at 8.20 (7:20 a.m. British time) when Petar Miletic was leaving his home in northern Mitrovica to go to work in Pristina," said Ergin Medic, deputy regional police chief.
Blast kills 1 at Serb protest in north Kosovo town.
MITROVICA, Kosovo — An explosion tore through a Serb protest in an ethnically divided town of Kosovo on Friday, fatally injuring one man and leaving about 11 others with shrapnel wounds, police and doctors said.
It was the latest in a series of violent incidents in Mitrovica over the last two years, as minority Serbs in northern Kosovo have rejected the country's independence from Serbia and bridle against the majority ethnic Albanian authority in Pristina.
Kosovo police said a hand grenade went off Friday in the crowd of about 1,000 Serbs protesting the opening of a civil registry office run by Pristina in the Serb-dominated part of Mitrovica.
Shots also were heard at the gathering, and about 11 people were injured in the blast, police said. NATO-led peacekeepers and European Union officers were also deployed to the site.
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