This is the motive for the murder near Majdanpek: Minister gave a statement

As he said, it was this person who repeatedly set fire to vegetation and caused fires.

"We are talking about the locals, a married couple from the same village. It is about a quarrel that arose because of the burning of vegetation, that is, the possibility of setting fire to the forest in that part where the married couple had their own properties. The locals constantly accused this person that he was constantly burning vegetation and causing fires. When the married couple went to see what the situation was, since the fire had already started, this event happened. They were on the tractor and he most likely fired with a hunting rifle", minister told journalists at the Nikola Tesla airport during the send-off of the members of the Helicopter Unit and the Department for Emergency Situations of the MIA who will extinguish the forest fire in North Macedonia.

Dacic added that he currently has no information on whether the person had a license to hold a rifle or not and added that it was assumed, bearing in mind that the person is so old, that it could be resolved by the local police forces.

"However, when it came to the fact that two people were killed. Let me remind you, the married couple remained lying on the tractor after the shooting. There were two other persons behind that married couple, one person was also wounded, and the fourth person ran away and informed about the incident. Since the place of the event is far from the village, a lot of time has passed and it was necessary to engage special forces. The special terrorist unit reacted because there was still shooting, it was not known how it would all end," the minister said.

As he pointed out, the person who fired shots was in his house and did not want to surrender after several hours of talks and negotiations, however, he met the police with a rifle in his hand and confronted them, and the police had to react in accordance with the law.

Dacic also referred to the operation of voluntary surrender of weapons and said that this operation has been carried out for the last 20 years, but that only last year it gave greater results and that tens of thousands of weapons were returned.

"Of course, this is not enough, from the aspect of criminal acts and in the last resort it is very important that there are as few weapons as possible in real life. But, as you know, there are licenses that have already been issued and a number of people still have licenses to keep and for carrying weapons. That law will be reviewed soon and we will see what the best solutions are," said Dacic.

Members of the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (SAJ) last night neutralized a double murderer from the village of Topolnica, near Majdanpek, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Ivica Dačić.

Two people were killed yesterday and one was injured in a shooting in the village of Topolnica in the vicinity of Majdanpek.

Injured N.M. (59) with gunshot wounds was treated at the Health Center in Donji Milanovac and is out of danger. The murdered were found on the spot without signs of life.