Two people were killed and one injured early Wednesday in a shooting incident involving ethnic Albanians in a bar in the flashpoint Macedonian town of Tetovo, interior ministry spokesman Vasko Sutarov said.
He stressed that security forces were not involved in the incident, and there was no immediate indication it was directly linked to the conflict between ethnic Albanian rebels and government troops, which ended in an August 13 peace accord.
The spokesman said the shooting occurred at around 3am. One person was killed and two injured, one of whom later died in hospital.
He gave no further details.
The region around Tetovo, in the north of the former Yugoslav republic, was the scene of some of the fiercest fighting during the insurgency, which the rebels launched in February to secure improved rights for the country's large ethnic Albanian minority.
As part of the Western-backed peace deal, the guerrillas handed in almost 4,000 weapons to NATO troops in an operation that ended late last month -- Skopje, (AFP)
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