A Ukrainian member of Kosovo's UN police force has died of his injuries following clashes with Serbian demonstrators in the town of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo police said Tuesday.
   
"An Ukrainian police officer died Monday evening of wounds suffered during violent demonstrations in the north of Kosovska Mitrovica," Kosovo police spokesman Veton Elshani said, one day after the fighting.
   
More than 150 people were wounded Monday in the ethnically divided town during violent clashes between UN police and NATO peacekeepers and Serbs opposed to Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia.
   
Sixty-three of them were members of the United Nations' international police force in Kosovo, hurt when demonstrators pelted them with stones and at least one grenade and possibly even shot at them.
   
The riot erupted after police conducted a pre-dawn raid in order to dislodge a group of Serbs protesters who had been holed up inside two UN-run courts in Mitrovica since Friday.
   
After the police detained around 50 Serbs in the court, hundreds of residents from the Serb-populated northern part of the town attacked the securty force's convoy and managed to free some of the prisoners.
   
The police later withdrew from the northern half of Mitrovica, but NATO-led Kosovo Force peacekeepers remain in the flashpoint town.
   
Kosovo's Albanian-majority parliament unilaterally declared independence from Serbia on February 17, causing tensions in the north where the Ibar River splits Serbs in the north from ethnic Albanians in the south.