Sixth police officer dies in Macedonia clashes

May 10, 2015 17:23

A policeman injured in clashes with unidentified gunmen in northern Macedonia died of his wounds today, a hospital source said, raising the number of officers killed in the violence to six.

"(A) policeman has died while another one is in critical condition," a source at a Skopje hospital told AFP on condition of anonymity as Macedonia began two days of official mourning for victims of the violence.

The government said earlier that five policemen had been killed and some 30 injured in clashes with unidentified gunmen in Kumanovo that erupted yesterday at dawn.

"There are victims among the terrorists but for the time being we cannot give the exact number," Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska told reporters late yesterday.

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