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Five Macedonian police officers killed in armed clashes in north

SKOPJE, May 9 (Reuters) - Five police officers died and more than 30 were wounded in an operation against gunmen in an ethnic Albanian area of northern Macedonia on Saturday, Interior Minister Gordana Jankulovska said.
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Jankulovska told a news conference that some of the gunmen had been killed, without saying how many. She said police had no information about possible civilian casualties during a day-long gun battle in a suburb of the northern town of Kumanovo.

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(Reporting by Kole Casule; Writing by Matt Robinson; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

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