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SKOPJE, Macedonia, May 12 – A shootout between Macedonian police and an armed group near the country’s border with Kosovo Wednesday has left four people dead, police said.
The four men were killed during a police ambush near Radusa village to intercept weapons smugglers, police spokesman Ivo Kotevski said.
The shootout began when the men driving in a van opened fire on police after being asked to stop for a check, he added. All four men in the van were killed.
Earlier this month, a former ethnic Albanian rebel group, the National Liberation Army, claimed responsibility for another shootout on April 29 in the border area, which it said killed a Macedonian soldier. The Macedonian government denied the claim.
