Renewed search for missing Czech students

TIRANA, Oct 26 – Albanian police last week renewed their efforts to find the missing Czech students with a public appeal for any information on their whereabouts.
The three students – Jan Pavelka, Michal Pavelka and Lenka Tuckova – disappeared on August 7, 2001, while hiking in northern Albania.
Police offered a $100,000 reward for information on the case. That was a renewal of the same offer made two years ago.
The three students have allegedly disappeared without a trace while hiking in the remote Dukagjini region, close to the border with Montenegro and Kosovo.
Albania’s police have found no trace of the trio so far.
A rescue team including friends of the three students also searched the area at the time without success. In 2008, after an anonymous tip claimed that the three students were buried in a cave close to the village of Theth, police special forces scoured the surrounding area but again came up empty-handed.