Dusan S

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Monday Pristina's special police had fired at a vehicle carrying two Serbs, wounding one of them.

Miljan D, who was driving, is seriously wounded while Dusan S, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, is unharmed, Petkovic said.

Kosovo police confirmed that they shot at a vehicle in which there were two Serbs in Bistrica, in the northern municipality of Leposavic, after trying to stop the vehicle.

Police on Monday said the police unit had been deployed at a checkpoint "with the aim to preserve order and public safety and also to prevent crime and smuggling".