UN police to restore mission

UN police yesterday began returning to the Serb-held town in northern Kosovo where protesters with guns and hand grenades killed one of their colleagues and wounded dozens more.

About 40 UN police officers will resume their duties alongside 80 members of the local police force in Mitrovica, which on Monday saw the worst clashes since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia a month ago.

Yesterday Nato troops removed bundles of barbed wire from the bridge that splits the former industrial city into its Serb and Albanian sectors, but no cars used it.