Albania-Explosion (Shperthimi i depos se armeve ne Gerdec)

Shperthimi i depos se armeve ne Gerdec

One hundred and sixty people, many of them Americans, are feared dead or injured after a series of large explosions at an army base on the outskirts of Tirana, the capital of Albania, officials have said.

People suffering with burns, concussions and broken limbs were rushed to local hospitals following the blasts, believed to have begun while teams were dismantling munitions at a store base. Many of the injuries were a result of flying glass or shrapnel.

"We do not know the exact number, but we fear the worst for the three teams, each of 21 people, working there at the time," said Juela Mecani, spokeswoman for the country's prime minister, Sali Berisha. "Several were US citizens."

A spokesman for the Albanian interior ministry, Avni Neza, said army and police forces were trying to reach the area in armoured cars. "Helicopters have not yet managed to land because the explosions continue," he said.

A Reuters cameraman who quickly arrived at the scene described people trying to escape: "Terrified people are leaving the area on foot along the highway, women and children. Cars with broken windows have been abandoned on the highway."

The force of the explosion was so strong that it was felt at the seaside resort of Durres, 20km away. People living in the nearby village of Gerdec took shelter in concrete bunkers while others fled to the hills.

At Tirana airport, several kilometres from the base, glass doors and windows shattered. "We evacuated passengers from the affected area and suspended flights for around 30 minutes," said Arlinda Causholli, a spokeswoman for the airport.

Local media reports suggested that five people were in a coma while Tirana residents were rushing to hospitals to donate blood. One witness said there had been 100 people at the base. The US embassy in Tirana could not confirm whether US military personnel were present at the site or not.

Albania is required to dismantle its obsolete Stalinist-era arsenal and modernise its armed forces in order to qualify it for an invitation to join Nato next month.

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[purpleravenstar]

Meh, more like surplus Soviet or Chinese ammo made back in the 50's or the 60's.

[aLbbI96]

o serb muti ka shqiperia municion sa me ju qi ropt siq ju ka qi ne Koshare bashk me uqk edo tju qim akoma me shume RROFT SHQIPRIA E MADHE , a vi cigani sto pisite ovde ja qu da vas jebem majku iserbiju pershendetje nga Prizreni per gjith popullin me te mire ne bote

[Loveschuck87]

Isha ne Fier kur ndodhi kjo. I was in Fier when this happened, I heard about it on my way back to where I lived at the time, which was a town called Lushnje. But the shock-wave shattered the glass out at Tirana international airport!!! We heard about that for weeks!!!

Never a good idea to put only USABLE ammo all together in the same place, and then expect nothing to EVER happen to it!!! I love the Albanians, but sometimes..........they just don't put 2 and 2 together. Mos e bej gjera te tilla!

[BOGZASV8MA]

@ERZEN88 crnac

[ERZEN88]

@BOGZASV8MA jebem ti mamu sestru citavu ffamiliju majmune.

[BOGZASV8MA]

@AldoGaraj ITS A NON EUROPEAN WORD - ASIATIC ORGINS.

[AldoGaraj]

@BOGZASV8MA qifsha means fuck all your family in ass :D

[BOGZASV8MA]

@AlbanianLeader4 so what are you implying we are? Jewish? Semitic? the same people that financed your lies? No I played basketball in highschool . I am 6'6" tall . Brown hair and eyes. Using latin roman names THAT DOES NOT REPRESENT the ethnic inhabitants? YOUR GENETICS EV-13 CAN BE FOUND IN EGYPT AND MORROCCO... AND ITS NOT FAR FROM SOMALIASTAN....

[AlbanianLeader4]

@BOGZASV8MA Hahahaha xD Negro? Your brotherland is Montenegro :P I know you are 1.60cm, dark eyes and black hairs. I'm 1.90cm, brown hairs and green eyes. ;D

[BOGZASV8MA]

NOBODY WANTED TO IMMIGRATE TO SHQUIPISTAN

[BOGZASV8MA]

@AlbanianLeader4 YOU SHQIPS ARE INDO EUROPEANIZED AFRICANS FROM 6 thousand years ago...ACCORDING TO GENETIC STUDIES, YOU HAVE EV-13 IS AN AFRICAN NIGGER GENE FROM SOMALIASTAN....YOU ALL ARE NEGROS BY ETHNIC ORGIN..YOUR COMMON MOST RECENT GENETIC ANCESTOR WAS A NEGRO FROM SOMALIA....SADLY I MUST DISAPPOINT YOU ABOUT YOUR HOMELAND AT THE EAST HORN OF AFRICA....HAPLOTYPE I DOMINATED ALL OF EUROPE AT ONE TIME... AND SERBIA IS A COSMOPOLITAN COUNTRY WITH DIVERSITY WITH MANY SHQIP IMMIGRANTS..

[AlbanianLeader4]

@BOGZASV8MA Sadly I must disappoint you, the Serbs or Serboi are an Sarmatian tribe like Hirvat, you both came together in 6. century from Caucasus over Ukraine and Romania to the todays' Serbia and marched together with the Slavs in Balkans and got slavized. Serbs or Yugoslavs don't look like Russians, white and red heads, they have dark hairs and eyes. Serbs are slavized Sarmatians from Caucasus, that's fact and proved. It's strongly expected that Albanians are descendants of the Illyrians.