 Troops with NATO's peacekeeping Kosovo force, K4, stood on guard outside a municipal building in Lepasavik in the country's north on May 30 as local Serbs held a peaceful protest nearby. Lepasavik's new mayor was unable to leave his office for more than 24 hours on Monday because of protesters outside, media reported. Clashes on May 29 saw 30 NATO soldiers and 52 protesters injured in another north Kosovan city, Svekan, as Serbs protested ethnic Albanian mayors taking office in northern Kosovo after elections boycotted by the Serb community who are the majority in the area. Kosovo police said in a statement that the situation in the region was fragile but calm. Unrest in the region has intensified since ethnic Albanian mayors took office in northern Kosovo's Serb majority area after April elections the Serbs boycotted, a move that led the US and its allies to rebuke Pristina on Friday.