Kosovo police said one person was wounded when it opened fire on Monday at a car that failed to stop at a checkpoint and struck a police vehicle, in what marked another violent incident in the country's ethnically divided and volatile north.
It took place in the town of Leposavic near the border with Serbia at one of the checkpoints set up following a flare-up in tensions late last month. Serbian authorities said both the driver and the injured passenger were Serbs.
"The police unit, which was at the checkpoint, while performing its police duties was trying to stop a car, which ... hit the Kosovo police vehicle, endangering the lives of the officers," Kosovo police said in a statement.
