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The Macedonian army use helicopters to unleash attack on rebel positions on the hills.

(24 Mar 2001) 1. Wide of choppers flying overhead 2. Various choppers, sound of explosions in the distance 3. Various of impact on hills. 4. Wide shot Macedonian army checkpoint, civilian car driving by 5. Mid shot of Macedonian soldiers behind the sandbag fortification, watching through binoculars 6. Mid shot APC firing heavy machine gun 7. Wide shot houses on the hill 8. Various houses being fired upon 9. Wide shot civilians and press standing on the street watching shooting 9. Mid shot Macedonian soldiers firing from machine guns at rebel positions on the hill 10. Wide shot of heavy machine gun impact on hills 11. Wide shot street 12. Mid shot wall damaged by the mortar 13. Various attack aftermath (damaged house) 14. Close up blood stain 15. SOUNDBITE (Macedonian) "I was about 200 metres away from the site when the first mortar landed, soon after followed by a second one . There was a dusty cloud and I run to help the injured. I put them in to the car, and drove them into a hospital" SUPERCAPTION: Vox Pop, eyewitness 16. Wide shot street STORYLINE: xfa Several explosions were heard on Saturday from the hills above Macedonia's second largest city Tetovo, where government forces and ethnic Albanian rebels have clashed repeatedly over the past week. The Macedonian army used recently acquired Ukrainian attack helicopters to unleash a barrage of rocket attacks on rebel positions on the hills. The Macedonians just received the four Ukrainian helicopters, including two MI-24 attack choppers, on Friday. The ethnic Albanian leader Arben Xhaferi had earlier expressed outrage at the Macedonian government's decision to obtain the choppers, saying it moves the crisis further into the military arena and away from the political one. Scattered booms from heavy artillery shook the city, just hours after the country's premier warned that the government's drive to repel the rebels was not over. A shell slammed into a Slav neighborhood near a police checkpoint on Saturday, injuring four Slav civilians. Tetovo hospital director Rahim Phaci said three suffered injuries consistent with an explosion; the fourth was being treated for shock from the force of the blast. Macedonian police spokesman Stevo Pendarovski said "terrorist groups" in the hills above the city were responsible for the attack. Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski suggested on Friday night that the military had not yet carried out its threatened operation to "neutralize and eliminate" the insurgents. He said the former Yugoslav republic's poorly equipped military was rapidly arming itself and biding its time. Saturday's attack is proof of the escalation of the situation and two additional transport helicopters are reportedly on their way to Macedonia from Greece. Georgievski's tough talk came as ethnic Albanian leaders from Kosovo, including former guerrillas who battled Slobodan Milosevic's forces there in 1999, urged their brothers in Slav-majority Macedonia to lay down their arms and find a peaceful solution. The ethnic Albanian struggle in Macedonia has been linked to the war in Kosovo. Although the rebels in Macedonia say their aim is more rights for ethnic Albanians within Macedonia, the government accuses them of seeking independence - like the KLA did in Kosovo - and drawing on Kosovo for fighters and weapons. 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...