The NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo (KFOR) in the night between Tuesday and Wednesday took over the barricade at the Jarinje border crossing between Kosovo's volatile north and Serbia, and used tear gas to disperse locals who gathered there, the media in Belgrade reported on Wednesday morning.
Barbed wire was set up on the main road connecting the northern Kosovo municipality of Leposavic and the southern Serbian municipality of Raska, through Jarinje.
During the operation two Serbs from the barricade were taken into custody, but were released shortly afterwards.
Commenting on the KFOR operation, local serbs who set up the barricade unloaded several trucks of gravel near the border crossing in an attempt to make a new barricade.
The situation at the Jarinje border crossing is now calm.
Kosovo Serbs are resisting attempts by the country's ethnic Albanian authorities to extend their writ to the largely lawless north, more than three years after Pristina declared independence from Serbia with the backing of Western powers.
On several occasions KFOR attempted to remove roadblocks.
The situation in northern Kosovo is calm but tense.
