Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Blace bunker raid" in English language version.
Дел од екстремистите кои дејствуваа во Куманово и Гошинце во април и мај годинава, оставиле траги зад себе уште пред 5 години во упориште на Скопска Црна Гора, откриле вештаците на МВР, велат извори од истрагата за Алфа. Some of the extremists who operated in Kumanovo and Goshince in April and May of this year, left traces behind 5 years ago in a stronghold of Skopje Montenegro, the experts of the Ministry of the Interior discovered, sources from the Alfa investigation say.
Unofficially local media reported that several armed and uniformed men who were guarding the weapons on Thursday opened fire on the special police forces after which they fled to Kosovo. Local A1 TV reported at least one armed man was wounded by police. The arsenal of arms found yesterday reportedly contained many weapons, including machine guns, manual missile launchers, anti-tank mines, explosives, and detonators. Interior Ministry spokesman Ivo Kotevski said the police unit "Tigers" launched the operation on early Thursday following intelligence reports on stored weapons several kilometers northeast of Blace village near the Blace border crossing.
"The quantity of seized ammunitions was very large and this is very worrying for us," Admiral Mark Fitzgerald, Commander of NATO's Allied Joint Force Command in Naples, said during his visit to Kosovo, AFP reported. "Such actions could destabilise a country like Macedonia, so we have to be concerned," he told media. Macedonian police last Thursday siezed a weapons stash hidden in the mountainous terrain near the village of Blace in the very sensitive border area with Kosovo. The stash included 20 missiles, three mortars, three field guns, 81 kg of plastic explosives, and hundreds of grenades and mines.
"At this phase I would not link the two incidents," Macedonian Minister of Police Gordana Jankulovska told media today, referring to the recent discovery of weapons caches in the same area of Macedonia. "The police are working on the case and are still on the ground," she said, adding that violence will not be tolerated and that the police have the situation under control. So far it is not clear whether this incident is linked with that in late April when the police in the same border region with Kosovo found a large weapons stash and clashed with the uniformed gunmen who were guarding it.
The Macedonian police today found another bunker with weapons and ammunition near Blace. The Macedonian Ministry of Internal Affairs emphasizes that the police continue to "comb" the area. According to the Minister of the Interior, Gordana Jankulovska, the seized weapons belonged to an extremist group that planned operations not only in Macedonia, but also in the wider region. Jankulovska, however, assessed that there is no need for citizens to worry about their safety.
Дел од екстремистите кои дејствуваа во Куманово и Гошинце во април и мај годинава, оставиле траги зад себе уште пред 5 години во упориште на Скопска Црна Гора, откриле вештаците на МВР, велат извори од истрагата за Алфа. Some of the extremists who operated in Kumanovo and Goshince in April and May of this year, left traces behind 5 years ago in a stronghold of Skopje Montenegro, the experts of the Ministry of the Interior discovered, sources from the Alfa investigation say.
