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(ANSA-AFP) - BELGRADE, MAY 26 - Police used tear gas on
Friday to disperse Serbs who gathered in front of municipal
buildings in northern Kosovo, after police helped install ethnic
Albanian mayors following controversial elections. Serbian
residents -- who rallied at the sound of an alarm commonly used
in response to the presence of Kosovo police -- clashed with the
officers in the Serb-majority town of Zvecan, AFP journalist
saw. They were eventually pushed back. In various videos posted
online, gunshots and shock bombs could also be heard. Ambulances
arrived to the scene but it was not immediately clear if there
were injuries. Kosovo police did not comment on the incidents,
but only confirmed that officers were assisting newly elected
mayors to enter the premises. "According to their official duty,
today the Kosovo Police is assisting the mayors... to exercise
their right to work, in the official facilities of the
respective municipalities," the Kosovo Police said in a
statement. (ANSA-AFP).
