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Three UN policemen -- two Americans and a Jordanian -- were killed in Kosovo during a shootout between officers sparked by a quarrel over the conflict in Iraq (news - web sites), UN officials and sources said.
A fellow officer, a US citizen, described the incident as a clash over the US role in Iraq.
"They quarrelled over the situation in Iraq," he said.
"Everything started when the Middle Eastern guys told the American police officers that the US has occupied Iraq like every other country. The Americans were pissed off by these accusations.
"Suddenly one Jordanian started shooting," the UN policeman said.
UN police spokesman Neeraj Singh reported the deaths and said 11 other officers had been injured in the mid-afternoon clash. All were stationed at a prison in the town of Kosovska Mitrovica, he said.
"A shooting incident involving international police officers took place in the detention center in Kosovska Mitrovica," said Singh in Pristina, the capital of the UN-run Serbian province.
"Three international officers, two from the United States and one from Jordan, have died and another 11 have been injured. Some are in serious condition," he told AFP.
Hospital sources in the town -- the scene of deadly ethnic riots last month between Albanian and Serb populations -- said one of the dead was an American woman
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