Police battle Serb protestors on a bridge

UN police fired tear gas at 5,000 Serb demonstrators trying to cross a key bridge in the ethnically divided city of Kosovoska Mitrovica today.

They were attempting to keep the protesters off the bridge separating the Serb and ethnic Albanian sides of the city – a flashpoint of tensions in Kosovo’s north.

The Serbs waved Serbian flags and chanted “Kosovo is ours!” on their fifth day of protests since Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian leaders declared independence on Sunday.