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The Chinese contractors re-enacted for Albania's News24 TV on
Monday what they said had happened on a mountain road in
northern Albania on Sunday after they were held up at gunpoint.
"They were masked and armed and stopped us, putting the gun
below the chin of our friend. They wanted our mobile phones,
money and the sacks with our goods," said one of the Chinese
men, whom News24 did not name.
Speaking in Chinese, the three agreed to fight their attackers,
he said.
The man's demonstration of his techniques for the camera
included powerful hand blows and frontal and back kicks.
Having overpowered the gunmen, the Chinese men called the police
and had them arrested.
Albanian police confirmed that gunmen had tried to rob the
Chinese nationals at gunpoint and said they had arrested two
people, aged 21 and 23. The police also said they had seized old
Soviet-era Model 54 guns, a mask and a bag.
Holdups, commonplace in Albania during the Balkan country's
turbulent post-communist 1990s, are much rarer now.
(Reporting By Benet Koleka, Editing by Matt Robinson and Gareth
Jones)
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