Baku-APA. Five Macedonian policemen were killed and more than 30 others injured in a major operation against armed group, Macedonian Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska said Saturday, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
The operation, conducted in the town of Kumanovo, an ethnic Albanian area of northern Macedonia, is still underway, according to officials.
The police intelligence implied that the gunmen entered Macedonia illegally from the neighboring Kosovo region.