Clashes with an armed group have left at least five police officers dead in Kumanovo, northern Macedonia.
The armed group, from an unidentified neighbouring state, was armed with bombs and automatic rifles, interior ministry spokesperson Ivo Kotevski said, adding that members of the group were sheltered by some residents in the Diva Naselba neighbourhood.
Kumanova, which is near the border with Kosovo and Serbia, is mainly inhabited by the ethnic Albanian minority, who demand more rights and launched an uprising in 2001, which only ended after a peace agreement was signed with the government, guaranteeing more rights.
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