Czech tourists robbed and killed in Albanian mountains
Tirana
Two Czech tourists were shot on an Albanian mountain road on Friday, and the killers rolled their car down a ravine to portray the deaths as an accident, police and eyewitness reports said yesterday.
Michael Savos, 27, and Anna Kosinova, 36, were gunned down as they took a turn to a tent camp in the Alpine area of Theth, a favourite haunt of Czech tourists.
A police spokesman said they had found an automatic weapon inside the car, and an ammunition magazine and two bullet casings nearby. "One of the attackers might have been travelling with the victims," a police spokesman said.
Reports said the killers stole the tourists' possessions.
The wilderness of Theth, among peaks as high as 2,400 metres (7,900 feet), draws tourists from both Western and Central Europe, especially Czechs.
Given its remoteness, it has also turned into a favourite spot for cultivating cannabis despite a police operation there last summer to eradicate the plant.
Police said they have questioned around a dozen people over the incident.
Three Czech tourists who disappeared in Dukagjin in 2001 are still missing.
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