Lipkovo

Macedonia's election campaign formally started on Monday and over the next 20 days the parties will be holding rallies and round tables and trying to visit as many places as they can.

Macedonian police said they had arrested one suspect in connection with the recently reported attack on a remote border post.

The suspect, aged 55 and from the border village of Brest, was found in possession of firearms and military uniforms during raids conducted over the  weekend.

Macedonian police on Tuesday said a group of 40 armed and masked gunmen wearing the markings of an Albanian paramilitary unit, the National Liberation Army, NLA, stormed a police outpost near Kosovo at 2.30 am Tuesday.

Police Spokesperson Ivo Kotevski told a press conference in Skopje that a "terrorist attack" had taken place.

"Terrorists with KLA insignia" seize police outpost

SKOPJE -- 40 armed and masked persons wearing the insignia of the KLA early on Tuesday seized a police outpost in the Macedonian village of Gosnice, Lipkovo municipality.

The KLA (Albanian: UCK) is the now disbanded so-called Kosovo Liberation Army. The Lipkovo municipality is located in northern Macedonia.