The Kosovo Police said that in Bistrica, Leposaviq, shot towards a car, as it did not stopped for inspection. Meanwhile, according to the Office for Kosovo in the Serbian Government, a Serb was injured in this incident. 

According to a press release, the vehicle hit the Kosovo Police vehicle during the movement, "directly endangering the lives of the police officials, who to neutralize the danger to them fired with firearms". 

The law enforcement authorities said that the suspects have left the scene, while in addition to the investigations into the case, Kosovo Police has also notified the Police Inspectorate for further procedures. 

Earlier on January 23, the director of the Office for Kosovo in the Serbian Government, Petar Petkovic stated that the injured M.D. was urgently transported to the Kraleva hospital. According to him, the Kosovo police units "shot" the vehicle "only because they did not want to allow the police to mistreat them without any basis or reason". 

According to Petkovic, the injured "was shot in the left part of the chest and has a gunshot wound". 

Petkovic said that in the car, which was driving on the Mitrovica-Leposaviq highway, in addition to M.D., there was also D.S., from the Serbian community, who did not suffer any injuries. 

Petkovic repeated that the special units of the Kosovo Police "do not have what to look for in the north of Kosovo". 

This is not the first incident of this kind in the north of Kosovo. Even in the past, the Kosovo Police has reported that there have been incidents involving vehicles suspected of carrying smuggled goods. 

The January 23 incident also comes a month after barricades were erected in the north of Kosovo for 20 consecutive days last December. 

The local Serbs had set up barricades after a former member of the Kosovo Police had been arrested. But, after the security measure was changed from detention to house arrest for Dejan Pantic, groups of local Serbs removed the barricades in the north of Kosovo.