Zeljko Bojic

ZVECAN - The body of a drowned man, believed to be a 17-year-old Kosovo Albanian, was recovered from the Ibar River near the village of Grabovac in the municipality of Zvecan in northern Kosovo-Metohija on Tuesday.

Kosovo Police Regional Operations Chief Zeljko Bojic told Tanjug that the body was found by a water rescue dive team on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Deputy director of the Regional Police in northern Kosovo Besim Hoti told Tanjug Saturday that the police was searching for a young men of Albanian nationality reported missing in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica.

BELGRADE - Kosovo Police Regional Chief of Operations Zeljko Bojic said in the wake of the attack on the Serb young men who was stabbed and taken to hospital wounded late on Thursday that the Kosovo Police would strengthen its presence in Mitrovica.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A young man of Serbian nationality, SN (17), was attacked and stabbed in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica and taken to a local hospital late on Thursday, Kosovo Police Regional Chief of Operations Zeljko Bojic has told Tanjug.

LEPOSAVIC - Velimir Rakic, an MP of the Srpska List in Kosovo's parliament, died in a severe car accident that took place in Leposavic in northern Kosovo-Metohija on Wednesday evening.

Rakic died in the hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica after suffering fatal injuries in the crash between his car and a freight vehicle.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Two passenger vehicles belonging to members of the Kosovo Police Service from Kosovska Mitrovica, northern Kosovo, were set on fire in the northern part of the city early on Thursday.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Two people suffered minor injuries in an incident that took place in northern Kosovska Mitrovica's Brdjani neighbourhood on Wednesday.

Two men - an ethnic Albanian and a Serb - were lightly injured in an incident that involved another Serb man, regional Kosovo police chief Zeljko Bojic said.

Doctor murdered in her office in northern Kosovo town

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- A 29-year-old doctor was murdered in her office late on Monday in the local healthcare center in Zubin Potok, a town in northern Kosovo.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Mayor of Serb-majority North Mitrovica Goran Rakic does not have a police escort any more, regional operations chief of Kosovo police Zeljko Bojic told Tanjug.

Bojic specified that the main police directorate based in Pristina decided to scrap the police escort service for Rakic on February 2.

More police in Serb areas of Kosovo for Christmas

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- More police will be deployed in Serb areas in Kosovo during the Christmas holiday, it has been announced.

The Serbian Orthodox Church and its believers adhere to the Julian calendar and on Tuesday celebrate Christmas Eve.