Kumanovo - The Macedonian army yesterday pounded ethnic Albanian guerrillas in northern villages for a second day, using heavy artillery and helicopter gunships in a concerted effort to stamp out the insurrection threatening a new Balkans conflict.
Non-stop artillery fire yesterday morning shook the hills around the village of Vaksince, seized by the ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA) on Thursday after its guerrillas shot dead two Macedonian soldiers patrolling the area, and captured a third.
