Tag: Куманово

Financial compensation of 70,000 euros will be awarded to the families of the killed police officers, the government decided at a session held on Monday evening. The worst wounded policeman will receive financial compensation of 40,000 euros, while four policemen that were severely injured and hospitalized at the Clinic for Anesthesiology, Reanimation and Intensive Care, and are under intensive care,...

Opposition leader Zoran Zaev, along with SDSM Secretary General Oliver Spasovski, and the Mayor of Kumanovo Zoran Damjanovski, visited houses in Divo naselje where fighting raged between the police and the terrorist group this weekend. SDSM leader was welcomed with cheers, and the people greeted him with applause. Zaev said he came to visit the place where the trauma occurred this...

„Meta“ News Agency reporter visited Kumanovo settlement Divo Naselje today. This suburb was the center of gunfights between police and terrorists during the weekend. Owners of the properties were in front of their homes, looking what was left.

Bulgaria should not be silent about Macedonia! It should come up with a position that is against the violation of borders, separatism and against all attempts similar problems to be solved by violent means. This was stated by the leader of VMRO-BND Krasimir Karakachanov in the show "Wake Up" at Bulgarian TV "Nova". He noted that Kumanovo is located only...

Municipality of Kumanovo opened a call center for citizens who need to be cared for. All families who need accommodation or any other help and problem can call the phone numbers 031 475-830 and 475-800. Dormitory "Professor Mijalkovik", gyms of schools "11th of October", "Kocho Racin" and "Hristijan Todorovski-Karposh" and kindergartens will be used as accommodation. Municipality of Kumanovo has allocated...

Shots are fired in Kumanovo this morning as well. Around 7 am, police had another shootout with an armed group in "Diva naselba". According to the media, three policemen, who were urgently transferred for treatment in Skopje, were wounded in the shootout this morning. Police are still blocking all entrances of the settlement, and residents of that part of the town...

At an extraordinary session, Government of the Republic of Macedonia decided today and tomorrow to be days of mourning to mark the death of members of the security forces of the Ministry of Interior in the police action to detect and dismantle a larger armed terrorist group in Kumanovo. During the days of mourning, the flag of the Republic of...

Three members of the security organs were killed in shootout in the police action in Kumanovo which is nearing its end and the last houses in the so-called area "Diva naselba" are being searched. This information is reported by Kumanovo media, but there is still no official confirmation for it. According to the same unofficial sources, ten people were injured and,...

Residents of Diva naselba in Kumanovo are being evacuated and the police operation is still ongoing. Shots are occasionally heard from the settlement. The approach to the settlement is closed, except for police vehicles and ambulances. No official information on the exact number of injured persons or victims, although the statement of the US Embassy expressed "condolences for the killed." Unofficially, it...

Regarding the gunfight in Kumanovo this morning, delegation of the European Union in Skopje calls for calmness from the public and asks to wait for the facts to be determined by the relevant authorities. "Delegation of the European Union is closely monitoring reports of the police operation, which is ongoing in the area of Kumanovo, in which there was an...

Embassy of the United States in Skopje calls for peacekeeping and expressed condolences for the dead and wounded in the police action in Kumanovo. "We deeply regret the loss of life of people in police action in Kumanovo and express our condolences to the families of police officers and civilians who have been killed and wounded. We are monitoring the...

Social Democratic Union of Macedonia appeals to citizens to be calm, not to succumb to the grim scenarios of causing conflict and destabilization of Macedonia, said today SDSM leader Zoran Zaev at the extraordinary press conference after the morning action of MOI in Kumanovo. - I call Nikola Gruevski to immediately come in front of the citizens of Macedonia and...

The congress of VMRO-DPMNE was originally planned to be held in Kumanovo today, but it was moved a week earlier due to, as META reported, "security and operational goals." VMRO-DPMNE officially denied that the relocation of the Congress for 2nd and 3rd of May was related to the announced protests of the opposition. - The Central Committee decides the date of...

Democratic Union for Integration said that they follow today's developments in Kumanovo with great concern and urge citizens to be calm and not succumb to any provocations. "Democratic Union for Integration believes that today's events in Kumanovo, but also the previous ones in Goshince and the explosion in front of DUI headquarters and others, are actions that are in complete...

This morning, there was a gunfight between police and still unidentified armed group in Kumanovo settlement "Diva naselba" in which 12 policemen were injured. Road around Kumanovo is blocked and strong police forces and ambulances are deployed. As the media report from the site, after a brief interruption, the gunfight between the armed group and the police re-kindled. Information that there are...