Armed robbers make off with huge cash haul in Albanian plane heist


Armed robbers have made off with a large cash haul seized from an Austrian Airlines plane just about to take off from an airport in Albania.
The masked assailants broke onto the runway of Tirana International Airport, close to the Albanian capital, Tuesday through a fire services entrance, and stole a shipment of money destined for Vienna, the AFP news agency reported Albanian police as saying.
A police chase ensued and one of the gunmen was shot to death. He was found to have been armed with an assault weapon, a grenade and a magazine of bullets, according to media reports from the scene.
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