Macedonian Ministry of Interior has found the murderers of the five persons near a lake in the Skopje village of Smilkovci.

Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska said it is about a group from Skopje - followers of Radical Islam. The arrested persons fought in Afghanistan and Pakistan against NATO troops.

Twenty persons have been arrested on different reasons. Ministry of Interior will file criminal charges of terrorism against them.

Some of the arrested persons are directly involved in the murders and there are persons for whom there are no data. Majority of them are Macedonian citizens.

Based on material evidence from the Ministry of Interior they claim that they are the perpetrators of grisly murders.

In the police raid of 26 facilities in the police action "monster" a large quantity of weapons were discovered. It is now investigated whether weapons are used in the murders of five persons.

Jankuloska said that main motive most probably was their idea of killing in the Radical Islam and the goal was to create feeling of fear in wider public.

Security situation is closely monitored and police act preventively but also repressively however there are no serious changes, Jankuloska said.

One of the most complex operations ever conducted by the Macedonian police happened early Tuesday. Operation is connected with the Easter grisly murders on the shore near the village of Smilkovci.

On April 13, Filip Slavkovski, Aleksandar Nakevski, Cvetanco Acevski and Kire Trickovski, namely in their late teens and twenties, as well as Borce Stefkovski – who was a 45-year-old man, were brutally murdered on the shore near the village of Smilkovci. They were killed by automatic weapons at close range.

One day later police confirmed that "Opel Omega" vehicle found 10km from the murder site was used in the crime near Skopje village of Smilkovci