During the performance of police duties, on Sunday around 02:34 in North Mitrovica, the unit for rapid intervention of the border police noticed that at the entrance to the village of Bajnska, the bridge was blocked by two heavy trucks without license plates, and in result it was impossible to enter this village via the bridge.

The public order units of the Zveqan Police Station, after receiving the information, sent three units to the location as part of the response to the response to the case. Upon their arrival in the place where the blockade was reported, the police units met with armed resistance. The three police units came under fire from different positions with different weapons, hand grenades and bombs.
Police managed to push back the attack and take two injured police officers at the hospital in southern Mitrovica.

One of them was dead on arrival, doctors said.

As it is reported, the police officer who lost his life is Sergeant Afrim Bunjaku, from the village of Samadrexë, Vushtrri.
The police announce that all the relevant police units according to the profiles have been deployed on the spot, meanwhile the latter are being attacked with firearms from different positions, by organized and armed groups.

“The Kosovo Police, in cooperation and coordination with the relevant institutions and justice bodies, is undertaking its actions with the aim of maintaining order and public safety, as well as bringing before justice the perpetrators of attacks on police officers”, police sources say.
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