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Several hundred people gathered in Pristina on Wednesday to protest against the way the Kosovo government has reacted to the crisis in Macedonia after the shootings in Kumanovo.

The protesters included family members of the Kosovars who were killed or arrested in the police raid on Kumanovo two weeks ago.

Terrorists "planned to blow up bridge in Skopje"

SKOPJE -- The terrorist group that last weekend carried out an attack in Kumanovo, northern Macedonia, "planned to blow up one of the main bridges in Skopje."

This was reported on Tuesday by the Macedonian website vecer.mk, which said the information was revealed by one of the captured terrorists.

8 Macedonian police, 14 Albanian terrorist die in clashes

SKOPJE -- The Macedonian police have published footage of the arrest and identification of a group suspected of carrying out a terrorist attack in Kumanovo.

Macedonia warned early this year 17 European states of the activities of the group whose attack in Kumanovo left 8 police officers dead, the country's President has said.

Fighting between police forces and members of an armed group has continued for a second day in the northern Macedonian town of Kumanovo.
                   
Five police officers were killed and over 30 injured in an exchange of fire with the armed group in the town on May 9.
                   

Explosions near police stations in Macedonia

SKOPJE -- The Macedonian Interior Ministry has confirmed that two explosions occurred near police stations in the towns of Tetovo and Kumanovo.

Nobody was injured in the incidents that took place on Tuesday evening.