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TIRANA, March 6 – Police reported that five Albanians had died in two separate incidents while taking iron and chalk to sell.
An old building collapsed in a village in Gramsh district, in central Albania, killing three people who were trying to remove iron bars to sell for scrap.
At about the same time, a massive rock fell on two people in a village in the south eastern Erseka district. They were cutting chalk for use in construction.
Both incidents occurred late evening last week on Friday.
Many among Albania’s 3.2-million population, one of the poorest in Europe, are forced to resort to stealing materials to sell on the black market, often working in unsafe conditions.
