UN police pulled out from a Kosovo border post that was destroyed on Tuesday by Serbs who vowed never to submit to the authority of Kosovo's Albanian government and its Western backers.
Reuters witnesses saw police destroy official documents and remove computers, then leave in a convoy of vehicles escorted by special riot police in armoured cars, and the border post known as Gate 3-1 north of the town of Zubin Potok was abandoned.
It was one of two border posts, between Kosovo and Serbia, attacked and set on fire by Kosovo Serbs earlier in the day in the Serb-dominated north-west corner of Kosovo. It was not clear if the UN police planned to return. The UN mission in Kosovo said two of the border roads leading north to Serbia were closed for 24 hours.
Police manning both posts had called for help from the Nato peacekeeping force, KFOR, a 35-nation force of 17,000 which has French, Belgian, US and Danish troops in the border zone.
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