Serbs riot after teen's shooting
Hundreds of angry Serbs have thrown stones at NATO-led peacekeepers and UN police after a Serb teenager was shot and wounded by unknown attackers.
Police say the shooting took place in the village of Caglavica, just outside the provincial capital Pristina, shortly before 8:00pm on Monday local time.
"A 19-year-old Serb male was shot several times and this started off a small riot with several hundred inhabitants of the area," UN police spokeswoman Angela Joseph said.
Ms Joseph says they set a car on fire and NATO troops were forced to call in reinforcements to deal with the crowd.
The villagers are still blocking the main road connecting Pristina to Macedonia, demanding action from the UN administration in the province.
Kosovo's ethnic Serb minority accuses NATO and the UN, who have run the southern Serbian province since the end of the 1998-1999 war here, of failing to protect them from attacks by the ethnic Albanian majority.
The victim of the shooting, Jovica Imvic, has been rushed to hospital.
He has undergone surgery for multiple gunshot wounds.
He told the Beta news agency in Serbia that he believes his attackers were young ethnic Albanians armed with a silenced pistol.
"I was returning from a grocery shop when a red Golf stopped and some young people called me over to ask me something," he is quoted as saying.
"When I approached I saw a silenced gun and felt a strong pain. From their accents I can say they were Albanians."
-- AFP
