At least four people are dead after Kosovan police cleared a monastery held by at least 30 heavily armed men near the border with Serbia.
At least four people are dead after Kosovan police cleared a monastery held by at least 30 heavily armed men near the border with Serbia.
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Prime Minister Albin Kurti has urged the gunmen in the village of Banjska near the Serbian border to surrender.
Officers were attacked from several different positions with “an arsenal of firearms, including hand grenades and shoulder-fired missiles”, they said in a statement.
The Serbia Orthodox Church said that gunmen had stormed a monastery in the village, located in Leposavic, where pilgrims from the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad were staying.
Tensions have run high in Kosovo, after violent clashes followed a disputed local election in May and EU-mediated political talks designed to stabilise the situation have stalled.
The EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell condemned what he called the “hideous attack” and said those responsible must be brought to justice.
But Kosovo’s foreign minister, Donika Gervalla-Schwarz, criticised Mr Borrell’s statement, saying it did not express support for the police nor use the word “terrorists” to describe the attackers.
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