Vejce Ambush | |||||||
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Part of Insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
UÇK | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
Patrol of 16 Macedonian Special Forces | 25–50 National Liberation Army | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
8 killed | 1 wounded |
Boris Trajkovski
Pande Petrovski
The Vejce Ambush occurred when militants of the NLA killed eight soldiers of the ARM, on the late afternoon of 28 April 2001 near Vejce, a village in the Šar Mountains. It was one of the most brutal ambushes of the Insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia.