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Police checkpoint and shelling as fighting continues

(10 Jun 2001) Aracinivo 1. Aracinivo village, police checkpoint 2. Long shot, Albanian checkpoint in the distance 3. Wide shot of village in the distance 4. Macedonian policemen at the checkpoint 5. Checking cars 6. Two people talking to policemen being turned away 7. Close up of sign saying police Slupcane 8. Various of shelling of the village 9. Helicopter 10. Tank firing 11. Various plumes of smoke after explosions STORYLINE: The outflow of ethnic Albanian civilians fleeing to Kosovo from homes near the capital and other potential areas of conflict grew to more than 7,000 on Sunday, as government forces waited for orders to counterattack well-armed rebels. Scores of people evacuated the suburb of Aracinovo over the weekend, where Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski said approximately 1,000 ethnic Albanian militants armed with light artillery and machine guns "control all strategic points." Police blocked roads around Aracinovo to try contain the rebels, opening the checkpoints only to fleeing civilians. Some left with armchairs, refrigerators and washing machines strapped atop their cars. Locals said that only a few thousand people remained in the town, where the normal population of about 13,000 had grown in recent weeks to 20,000 due to an influx of refugees coming from fought-over areas elsewhere. Aracinovo, southeast of Skopje, was calm on Sunday. Some fighting was reported to the north around Slupcane and Orizane, a strategically important rebel-held region - insurgents there control a reservoir that normally supplies about 100,000 residents of Kumanovo with water. Since the rebels cut off water supplies nearly a week ago, Kumanovo's population has been supplied with tanker trucks from Macedonia and neighboring Bulgaria. Aracinovo is very close to Skopje's airport, and the rebels have threatened to target it if attacked, making any army offensive a high-risk operation. "If the Macedonian army offensive in the northern part of the country does not stop by tomorrow morning, we will attack the airport, oil refineries, police stations in towns and other government installations," a rebel leader known as Commander Hoxha told The Associated Press. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...