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The conflict between Serbs and Albanians in Mitrovica
Seven people were injured, including five Serbian youths, belonging to the EULEX police and an ethnic Albanian in the incident that occurred in Kosovska Mitrovica, when, after a basketball game Turkey-Serbia, Serbs and Albanians clashed on the bridge over the Ibar River. Gathering of supporters of Turkey and in Novi Pazar.
On the bridge that divides Kosovska Mitrovica in the northern Serbian, Albanian and southern part of last night's incidents were injured in the five Serbian young men, belonging to the EULEX police and one Albanian. The situation in the divided city, after the intervention EULEX police calmed down and two hours after midnight on the streets and almost no people.
Hundreds of people gathered tonight at the center of Novi Pazar, celebrating the victory of Turkey over the basketball team of Serbia.
With firecrackers and Turkish flags were occasionally heard calls "Turkey, Turkey" and "This is Turkey", reports Beta. A number of young people jeered the RTS team that was in the car with Belgrade license plates.
At the same time and columns of a dozen cars with sirens and flags circling the central Turkish city streets, reports that RTS Dusan Jemuović.
In the central area where they were gathered mostly younger people, there are police, who viewed the gathering.
Only hours earlier, around the bridge over the Ibar, which divides Kosovska Mitrovica in the northern Serbian and Albanian southern part of the police force EULEX zasipale two conflicting groups of tear gas, there was a reporter from the scene RTS Svetlana Vukmirović.
Hour after midnight near the bridge, several explosions echoed and re-heard the shot fire, but about two hours a group of fans began to diverge.
The fighting is difficult to hurt Milos Radenkovic, from Zvecan, which is operated as the wounded in the left upper arm shot from firearms. His condition after surgery, is stable for the RTS said Dragisa Milovic the Mitrovica hospital. Others injured, after Highlighted assistance, were released to their homes.
Regional Kosovo Police Service spokesman Besim Hoti told Tanjug that a member of the EULEX police hit shot in the leg, the main Ibar bridge. Hoti said that he was injured and a Kosovo Albanian, and damaged four vehicles of the Kosovo police.
The situation after the incident was still tense, but calm, and the bridge over the Ibar river is blocked vehicles EULEX. The parties and members of the Kosovo police and KFOR.
The incident began after the World Cup semi-final matches in basketball, when a group of Albanians moved across the bridge over the Ibar river to celebrate the victory of Turkey over Serbia. Citizens from the northern part, which followed the transfer of the match in the nearby cafes clashed with ethnic Albanians, after which the Albanians returned to the southern part of town.
Oysters were exchanged on both sides, flew to the northern part of the tear gas and gunfire could be heard the shot.
Once you have reacted to alarm sirens, on the Serbian side of the bridge gathered several hundred people. At the other end of the bridge is a larger group of people, and the bridge was closed to traffic and there were police cars preprečena.
