Serbia releases Kosovo police officers amid outcry over arrests

The three Kosovo police officers captured by Serbian authorities will be set free (Serbian Ministry of Interior via AP)

A Serbian court has ordered the release of three police officers from Kosovo who were detained earlier this month as tensions escalated between the Balkan foes and US and European Union officials demanded that they be set free.

A court in the central Serbian town of Kraljevo said it was releasing the police officers, and they later returned to Kosovo.