Two NATO soldiers wounded by gunfire in north Kosovo
Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:48 GMT
PRISTINA, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Two NATO soldiers were wounded by gunfire on Monday in clashes with Serb demonstrators in north Kosovo, a spokesman for NATO's Kosovo Force (KFOR) said.
Clashes broke out early on Monday when NATO peacekeepers began removing one of more than a dozen roadblocks erected by Serbs in July after Kosovo's ethnic Albanian-dominated government tried to send border police to the north.
The spokesman, Frank Martin, said NATO soldiers had used tear gas at the roadblock in Jagnjenica, a village in the mainly Serb north where Serbs reject Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia.
"Two KFOR soldiers were wounded by firearms used by demonstrators," the spokesman said. (Reporting by Fatos Bytyci and Branislav Krstic; Writing by Matt Robinson; Editing by Louise Ireland)
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