The United Nations mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) has launched an investigation into the clashes in Kosovo's northern flashpoint town of Mitrovica, which left one UN police officer from Ukraine dead, a UNMIK spokesman said on Wednesday.
"We have started several criminal investigations relating in particular to the murder and attempted murder cases," UNMIK spokesman Alexander Ivanko told the Serbian national news agency Tanjug.
Ivanko said that the investigations had only just started, and that investigators will have to gather evidence.
He said that UNMIK plans to bring to justice those who killed the UN police officer and attempted to kill several other UN policemen.
On Monday morning, riots erupted in the northern part of Mitrovica after several hundred UN special police backed by French NATO peacekeepers stormed the UN-administered Municipal and District Court in the town and arrested dozens of Serbs, former court employees who had been protesting in the building for several days, demanding their jobs back nine years after they were left jobless in 1999.
The riots escalated into open clashes in which firearms, teargas and shock bombs were used.
Around 70 Serbs were injured with 15 seriously injured and two with life-threatening injuries.
Regional KPS spokesman Besim Hoti said on Monday that more than100 UN mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) police officers and NATO-led peacekeeping forces (KFOR) were injured in Monday's clashes.
Ivanko also said that the condition of 41 injured UN policemen is stable.
The regular UN police will return on Wednesday to northern Mitrovica, at least that is the plan, said Ivanko.
The police commissioner made the decision based on the situation in the field, which has calmed significantly since Monday, said the spokesman.
KFOR soldiers have been in charge of security in northern Mitrovica since Monday.
Source:Xinhua
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