TIRANA (Reuters) - The Albanian government ordered troops to guard the country's international airport and criticised the Chinese company that runs the facility on Wednesday, a day after armed robbers seized bags of cash that were about to be loaded onto a plane.
The government would "no longer allow the security of citizens and the country's image to suffer", Defence Minister Olta Xhacka said of Tuesday's robbery, which was the second time in three years the Tirana airport has been targeted in a heist.
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