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18:40 GRACANICA , June 11 (Tanjug) - The Pristina-Gnjilane road, which passes through Gracanica, will be blocked between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. every weekend, the Swedish KFOR battalion said in a statement on Friday. The statement, a copy of which was sent to Tanjug, said that Swedish KFOR units had restored checkpoints at the access road to Gracanica and were searching all vehicles entering the village. The checkpoints were restored after the recent murder of 17-year-old Dimitrije Popovic, a Serb from Gracanica.

GRACANICA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - A Serb teenager has been shot dead in Kosovo and police quickly arrested two Albanians suspected of trying to ignite another round of ethnic violence in the United Nations-run province. The killing in the Serb enclave of Gracanica on Saturday was the first since 19 people were killed in mid-March when the U.N. protectorate was engulfed in the worst violence in five years of international administration. NATO peacekeepers later said the riots were clearly orchestrated. U.N. police spokesman Malcolm Ashby said 16-year-old Dimitrije Popovic was killed when gunmen fired from a car into a...