SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian police have arrested two Bulgarians and a Swedish citizen suspected of involvement in trafficking arms, possibly for use in contract killings in Western Europe, the interior ministry said on Thursday.
Police detained the Swedish man in a bus bound for Germany at a border checkpoint with Serbia late on Wednesday after discovering a Kalashnikov assault rifle and six pistols in his luggage, the ministry said in a statement.
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