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 police to harass them without any grounds and for no reason whatsoever. Kurti's special police have no reason to be in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, including at that checkpoint - set up unlawfully and illegally - at which they harass Serb travellers on a daily basis," Petkovic said.

Since the very beginning of ROSU presence in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, Belgrade has been warning that their only goal is to cause incidents and harass Serbs, which became evident today, Petkovic said.

"Evidently, Kurti stops at nothing to shed Serb blood, and that is the only purpose of the existence of his squadrons in the north of Kosovo-Metohija," Petkovic concluded.