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Kosovo police exchange gunfire with local Serbs blocking roads to protest officer’s arrest
Kosovo Serbs and the country's police exchanged gunfire on Saturday after a flare-up of tensions in the volatile northern part of the country.
Earlier in the day, Serbs from Kosovo’s north blocked main roads in the region to protest against the arrest of a former member of the Kosovo police who quit his post last month along with other ethnic Serbs.
- ABC
- Reuters
With a crisis mounting in the majority Serb north, Kosovo’s president Vjosa Osmani on Saturday announced that local elections in that area would be delayed until April 23.
Elections had been scheduled for December 18 but Serbs said they would boycott the polls.
Police said the…