Serbia's court orders detention, investigation of three Kosovo policemen

A Serbian court ordered the detention and investigation on Friday of three Kosovo policemen detained earlier this week along the boundary between the two countries in an incident that heightened tensions between Belgrade and Pristina.

"According to the proposal of the public prosecutor ... , the judge for the preliminary proceedings of the Higher Court in Kraljevo ordered the detention of all suspects," the Higher Public Prosecutor's office in Serbia's southwestern city of Kraljevo said in a statement.

The prosecutor's office had charged the three policemen with unauthorised production, possession, carrying and trafficking of weapons and explosive substances, it said.