Petkovic: Kosovo Serb wounded in shooting by Pristina's special police

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.

The incident, which took place this morning at an illegal Bistrica Bridge checkpoint on the Kosovska Mitrovica-Leposavic trunk road in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, left their vehicle riddled with bullet holes, Petkovic said.

The wounded man has an exit wound through the chest and has urgently been transported to a hospital in Kraljevo, central Serbia.

"(Pristina PM Albin) Kurti's ROSU special police troops opened bursts of fire at a Serb-owned vehicle and the Serbs who were in it just because they did not want to allow the ROSU...