Serb gunmen battle police in Kosovo monastery siege; four dead

People work as Kosovo police and U.S. and EU troops stand by after one police officer was killed, another hurt in Kosovo gunfire, in Josevik, Kosovo September 24, 2023. REUTERS/Fatos Bytyci

(This Sept. 24 story has been refiled to add the full name of Kosovo's prime minister in paragraph 8)

NORTH MITROVICA, Kosovo (Reuters) - Ethnic Serb gunmen in armoured vehicles stormed a village in north Kosovo on Sunday, battling police and barricading themselves in a monastery in a resurgence of violence in the restive north that killed four people.