Macedonian police conduct raid near Kosovo border

KUMANOVO - Macedonian police authorities are conducting a large scale raid in the area near the Kosovo border, in the villages of Gosince, Brest and Malina Mahala, Deputy Minister of Interior Ivo Kotevski said.

Searching houses in this region, mostly abandoned, the police found weapons and ammunition, Kotevski said, MIA news agency reported.

On April 7, a group of around 40 people wearing uniforms of the disbanded ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army attacked a police watchtower in Gosince, on Macedonia's northern border with Kosovo, some 30 km north of the capital Skopje, Kotevski said.

He said the group apparently entered Macedonia from Kosovo, briefly captured four on-duty police officers and took control of the watchtower for about half an hour, after which the policemen were released.

No injuries were reported, and Kotevski qualified the incident as "very serious," adding that Macedonia was "the target of a terrorist attack."

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