EU: 'De-escalation needed' after Kosovo shootout

STORY: The gunmen stormed the village of Banjska on Sunday (September 24), battling police and barricading themselves into a Serbian Orthodox monastery.

Police retook the monastery late on Sunday, after three attackers and one police officer were killed.

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti has blamed Serbia for financing and sending armed men to Kosovo.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has denied the allegations blaming Kurti for inciting violence by refusing to form an association of Serb municipalities to give more autonomy to Serbs and by launching frequent police actions in the north.