The police operation in Kosovo in the village of Banjska after the murder of a police officer and the injured of two others, ended with eight of the attackers murdered and two other injured, sources confirmed for albaniandailynews.com. While 40 others are under siege. 

Police confirmed that on the scene are going the Prosecutor and representatives of the diplomatic corps in Kosovo.

Prime Minister Albin Kurti said earlier that Kosovar police are in a standoff with a sizable group of "heavily armed" individuals suspected in an overnight attack that killed a police officer in mostly Serb northern Kosovo and sparked vague accusations of involvement by neighboring Serbia.

Full details of the shooting were not immediately available.

Kurti said the group -- dressed in security- or military-like uniforms -- appeared to have ties to a Serbian Orthodox monastery complex at Banjska, where the deadly encounter began around 2:30 a.m. local time.

An RFE/RL team said earlier that rounds of gunfire continued to echo near the scene in northern Kosovo where ethnic and national tensions appear to have erupted into violence again in a predominantly Serb region of a Balkan hot spot.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said he "condemns in the strongest possible terms the hideous attack by an armed gang against Kosovo Police officers in Banjska/Banjske" and said more innocent lives were in danger "in ongoing hostilities" around the monastery.

He said the EU's peacekeeping force, EULEX, was "on the ground" as a second security responder and was in touch with authorities and with NATO KFOR peacekeepers.