Vucic: One of the most difficult days for our country, people

BELGRADE - Commenting on the latest developments in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said this Sunday was "one of the most difficult days for our country and our people since 2004 and 2008."

"At around 2.46 am, a group of Serbs from Kosovo-Metohija set up two trucks as barricades in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, then the 'Kosovo Police' came and tried to remove those barricades, and that is where clashes occurred with the Serbs who set up the barricades, and one (Kosovo) police officer was killed and another person was wounded in those clashes," Vucic said at an extraordinary press conference in Belgrade.

He said the Jarinje and Brnjak administrative crossings were closed at 8.57 am, with gunfire still being heard in the area.

Vucic condemned the killing of an ethnic Albanian police officer in the vicinity of the Banjska...