Eight police officers and 14 members of an "armed group" were killed in a day-long gun battle in an ethnic Albanian suburb of northern Macedonia on Sunday.
More than 24 hours after the police operation began, subsided by early afternoon and flat-bed trucks towed away several lightly-damaged armored vehicles.
The suburb in Kumanovo, 40 km (25 miles) north of the capital Skopje in a region that saw heavy fighting during an ethnic Albanian insurgency in 2001, remained locked down by special police units.
Interior Ministry spokesman Ivo Kotevski told a news conference 37 police officers were also wounded. He said no civilians were reported killed.
The government declared two days of national mourning and President Gjorge Ivanov summoned a meeting of the national Security Council, inviting leaders of the opposition and the main ethnic Albanian parties in a gesture of unity.
