Vejce ambush | |||||||
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Part of the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Macedonia | National Liberation Army | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Robert Petkovski † Boban Trajkovski † Igor Kosteski † Mile Janevski † | Unknown | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
8 soldiers 8 police officers | Unknown | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
4 soldiers killed 1 Humvee destroyed 1 Humvee damaged 4 officers killed 1 Lada Niva destroyed 1 Lada Niva damaged | None |
The Vejce ambush (Macedonian: Вејце заседа, romanized: Vejce zaseda), also known by Macedonians as the Vejce massacre (Macedonian: Масакрот во Вејце, romanized: Masakrot vo Vejce), was carried out by the National Liberation Army against a Special Operations Regiment convoy near the village of Vejce during the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia. During the attack, eight soldiers were killed.[1]