Skopje, 10 August 2024 (МИА) - Delegations will lay wreaths on Saturday at several memorials across Skopje to mark 23 years since the death of eight army reservists in the area Ljubotenski Bachila.

Ministry of Defense and Army delegations led by Chief of Staff, Lieutenant-General Vasko Gjurchinovski, will pay their respects at the memorials in Gjorche Petrov municipality, the villages of Volkovo and Ljubanci, as well as the Ilinden army barracks. 

A delegation of the Parliament of North Macedonia, including Karolina Naskovska and Blagoj Bochvarski, will lay flowers at the memorial in the village Ljubanci.

Gjorche Petrov Municipality will pay tribute to the army reservists at the memorial in Volkovo. 

On 10 August 2001, an army vehicle hit two planted mines at a road near Ljubotenski Bachila. Skopje garrison reservists Tome Badarovski, Goce Chankulovski, Branko Janev, Tomislav Nastevski, Marjancho Boshkovski, Ivica Zlatevski, Tome Dimoski and Rade Jankovski were killed in the incident.

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