Six Serbs injured in fight in Kosovska Mitrovica
Six Serb youngsters were left injured on Tuesday night after a fight with a group of Albanians in the Kosovska Mitrovica suburb of Mikro Naselje.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Wednesday, September 02, 2009
They were discharged from hospital after receiving medical treatment.
Kosovo Police Service (KPS) spokesman Besim Hoti confirmed that a fight had broken out between a group of Albanians and Serbs as they had been playing football, at about 21:30 CET.
The injured Serbs said that the Albanians had first attacked them on the pitch, then later again in the town.
The duty surgeon at Kosovska Mitrovica hospital Miroslav Dancetovic said that the youngsters had suffered minor cuts and bruises, and that medical treatment had been administered to six Serb youngsters between the ages of 16 and 19.
The neighborhood in question, one of three multi-ethnic districts in northern Kosovska Mitrovica, has thus far seen relatively little violence between Serbs and Albanians, while youngsters of both ethnicities regularly play football and basketball together on one of the pitches.
