"While countering the most active fringes of the crowd, several soldiers of the Italian and Hungarian KFOR contingent were the subject of unprovoked attacks and sustained trauma wounds with fractures and burns due to the explosion of incendiary devices," KFOR said.

"The unprovoked attacks on NATO units are unacceptable and KFOR will continue to fulfil its mandate impartially," KFOR Commander Angelo Michele Ristuccia was quoted as saying.

(Reporting by Fatos Bytyci; Writing by Ivana Sekularac; Editing by Hugh Lawson)