Powerful explosion destroys car in Kosovo's tense north
ASSOCIATED PRESS
2:07 a.m. June 24, 2008
PRISTINA, Kosovo – A powerful explosion destroyed a car Tuesday in Kosovo's tense north, an area dominated by the Serb minority, which opposes independence for Kosovo, police said.
An explosive device was detonated overnight under a car belonging to a Serb member of Kosovo's police force, police spokesman Besim Hoti said. No one was hurt.
The blast took place in the northern part of the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, which is split between ethnic Albanians and Serbs.
Police launched an investigation and were looking for suspects, Hoti said
The U.N. will also seek to calm Kosovo's restive Serb population, which is deeply suspicious of the ethnic Albanian majority.
NATO has deployed an additional 600 British troops to the Serb-dominated north to quell any violence, amid fears that tensions could spill over to the rest of the Balkans. There are more than 16,000 NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo.
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