30 peacekeepers injured in clashes with ethnic Serbs in Kosovo

KFOR soldiers and Kosovo police guard a municipal building (Dejan Simicevic/AP)

The Nato-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo, KFOR, on Tuesday raised the number of its troops injured in fierce clashes with ethnic Serbs to 30.

The Serbs had tried to take over the offices of one of the municipalities in northern Kosovo where ethnic Albanian mayors took up their posts last week.