PRISTINA, PRISTINA, March 18 (Hina) - Several dozen Albanians on Thursday clashed with security forces in Kosovska Mitrovica while attempting to enter a police sector by a bridge over the Ibar river which divides the town into the
northern, Serbian, and southern, Albanian, sector.
PRISTINA, PRISTINA, March 18 (Hina) - Several dozen Albanians on
Thursday clashed with security forces in Kosovska Mitrovica while
attempting to enter a police sector by a bridge over the Ibar river
which divides the town into the northern, Serbian, and southern,
Albanian, sector.#L#
According to Radio Kosovo, Kosovo special police and French police
threw tear gas on the protesters who then headed towards the Orthodox
Chuch in the southern sector of Mitrovica. A group of a dozen
demonstrators entered the church's yard and set a fire. NATO-led KFOR
members used tear gas and the demonstrators dispersed.
Hundreds of Albanians are protesting over a blockade of the
Pristina-Skopje road near the Serb enclave of Caglavica and in
Veternik near Pristina. Some protesters threw stones at KFOR soldiers
and members of the UN Mission police.
The union of students of Pristina University organised protests in
downtown Pristina to express solidarity with the victims of
yesterday's Serb-Albanian clashes. Protest were staged in Pec,
Urosevac, Djakovica and Prizren. According to information from
Prizren, the entire Serb settlement of Podkalaja is on fire. Radio
Kosovo reported on a serious situation in Obilic where about a dozen
Serb houses have been set on fire. Late last night a Serb Orthodox
Church and several Serb houses in Djakovica were burnt down.
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