Shots fired at EU car in Kosovo Serb town

(PRISTINA) - Gunmen opened fire on a car belonging to the EU mission near a flashpoint town in Kosovo, police said Friday.

Noone was injured but the EULEX car was damaged in the attack late Thursday, police said in a statement.

The car was escorting EU customs officers to the Kosovo-Serbia frontier when it was attacked on the outskirts of the divided Serbian-ethnic Albanian city of Kosovska Mitrovica, the statement said.

The Serb-populated northern part of Kosovo and the main town there were tense even before Kosovo unilaterally proclaimed independence from Serbia in February 2008. Serbia has never recognised the move.

The European Union, most of whose 27 members recognises Kosovo's independence, deployed a 2,000-strong police and justice mission, EULEX, in December to help oversee its transition.