Macedonian policeman shot dead near Kosovo
A Macedonian policeman was killed and two officers wounded in a shootout on the border with Kosovo early on Monday.
Monday, 10.09.2007.
12:53
A Macedonian policeman was killed and two officers wounded in a shootout on the border with Kosovo early on Monday. The shootout occurred shortly after midnight near the village of Vaksince in an ethnic Albanian area just south of the border with Kosovo. Macedonian policeman shot dead near Kosovo Reuters reported police sources in Macedonia and Kosovo as saying that an ethnic Albanian gunman died in the exchange and a second was arrested in Kosovo and was being treated in hospital for wounds. "The commander of the Matejce police station died on the way to hospital," a Macedonian police spokesman said. He identified the dead officer as the local, ethnic Albanian, police commander. The police patrol had come under attack and had returned fire, the spokesman said. A Kosovo police source said the wounded gunman was Zaim Halili, nephew of a former guerrilla who escaped from prison in Macedonia last month and was re-arrested two weeks ago. Halili had reportedly threatened revenge. In 2001, fighting between ethnic Albanian guerrillas and Macedonian security forces in the region around Vaksince marked the start of a seven-month insurgency that spread across north and western Macedonia before the West brokered a peace accord. European Union and NATO diplomacy ended the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia with a peace accord offering the country's 25-percent Albanian minority greater rights. The guerrillas laid down their weapons and entered government in 2002, but the main ex-guerrilla bloc found itself in opposition following elections in 2006. Officers inspect the scene near Vaksince (FoNet)
Macedonian policeman shot dead near Kosovo
Reuters reported police sources in Macedonia and Kosovo as saying that an ethnic Albanian gunman died in the exchange and a second was arrested in Kosovo and was being treated in hospital for wounds."The commander of the Matejce police station died on the way to hospital," a Macedonian police spokesman said. He identified the dead officer as the local, ethnic Albanian, police commander.
The police patrol had come under attack and had returned fire, the spokesman said.
A Kosovo police source said the wounded gunman was Zaim Halili, nephew of a former guerrilla who escaped from prison in Macedonia last month and was re-arrested two weeks ago. Halili had reportedly threatened revenge.
In 2001, fighting between ethnic Albanian guerrillas and Macedonian security forces in the region around Vaksince marked the start of a seven-month insurgency that spread across north and western Macedonia before the West brokered a peace accord.
European Union and NATO diplomacy ended the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia with a peace accord offering the country's 25-percent Albanian minority greater rights.
The guerrillas laid down their weapons and entered government in 2002, but the main ex-guerrilla bloc found itself in opposition following elections in 2006.
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