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Albania: found gun in baggage on flight Tirana-Bari

Tirana, Albania – It could not be used during the flight to make violent actions

The staff of the customs and of the Albanian frontier police found out a gun in a baggage that was going to be boarded on the flight Tirana-Bari of last Tuesday, of the Italian air company "Volare", that has an agreement with the society Franco-Albanian Ada Air. The police specified that the weapon, a "TT" of Soviet production, belonged to an Albanian woman who was going in Italy to meet her two sons...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 60582
Rome, Italy, 03/24/2004 15:20
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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