PRISTINA (Reuters) - An ethnic Serb politician in the flashpoint Kosovo town of Mitrovica was shot dead overnight in what officials said was part of a backlash by hardliners against an EU-brokered accord to end the country's ethnic partition.
Dimitrije Janicijevic, 35, was gunned down outside his apartment shortly after midnight, police said on Thursday. He was a member of the local Liberal Party, an ethnic Serb party that is part of Kosovo's Albanian-dominated coalition government.
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