Kosovo police

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday he had had an important discussion with representatives of Quint states in one of the most difficult moments for Serbia and that he had requested that Kfor take over care of all security issues in the north of Kosovo-Metohija from the so-called Kosovo Police.

Vui met with the ambassadors of the United States of America, Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany.
The meeting was also attended by the director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petkovi.

PRISTINA - Pristina's special prosecutor Naim Abazi said the body of another person involved in Sunday's clashes in the Banjska village in the north of Kosovo-Metohija had been found on Monday.

In a statement to Pristina-based Koha paper, Abazi said the body belonged to one of the "attackers" on the so-called Kosovo Police.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic said on Monday Serbia should beware any provocations in the wake of clashes in which three Serbs and one officer of the so-called Kosovo Police were killed in the north of Kosovo-Metohija early on Sunday.

BANJSKA - The Banjska village in the Zvecan municipality in the north of Kosovo-Metohija remains sealed off after Sunday's deadly clashes that followed an attempt by a group of Serbs to block a road in the village.

Three Serbs and one officer of the so-called Kosovo Police were killed in the clashes.

Three Serbs have been killed after a policeman was shot dead in the northern village of Banjska in Kosovo.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced last night that Kosovo police had killed the three and seriously wounded two Serbs.

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."

PRILUZJE - Another Serb - a man identified with the initials Z K - was arrested in Kosovo-Metohija on Wednesday and detained at the war crimes department of Pristina's special prosecution office.

The arrest took place in the Priluzje village near Obilic, central Kosovo-Metohija, the head of the Obilic Interim Authority Milan Kostic confirmed to Tanjug.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Two Serbs were arrested in the north of Kosovo-Metohija on Wednesday.

Ilija Elezovic was arrested in Kosovska Mitrovica, his son Nikola confirmed to Tanjug, adding that the arrest had taken place near a local secondary school this morning.

"We have not been told why he was arrested or where he is," Nikola Elezovic said.

GRACANICA - Three officers of the so-called Kosovo Police beat up two Serb men in central Gracanica, Kosovo-Metohija, on Thursday night.

One of the eyewitnesses told reporters that the Serbs - brothers identified as A M, aged 24, and M M, aged 19 - had been beaten up because one of them had asked the police why a traffic offence ticket was written in Albanian.