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full screen People hold a giant Serbian flag during the protest in the town of Zvecan in northern Kosovo. Photo: Bojan Slavkovic/AP/TT
Hundreds of ethnic Serbs have gathered outside the town hall in Zvecan in northern Kosovo. KFOR soldiers have formed a ring around the building and secured it with a metal fence, according to AFP’s reporter on the scene.
Tensions in the country remain high after 30 soldiers from the NATO-led international peacekeeping force Kfor were injured in clashes with ethnic Serbs who tried to enter an office belonging to a newly elected mayor. The mayors were elected in April in elections that the Kosovo Serbs boycotted and only 3.4 percent of the population cast their votes.