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Albanians extradited and expecting to be brought home serve prison terms

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TIRANA, Sep. 28 – Avni Abazi, 33, was extradited from Italy to serve a prison term of 17 years for murdering another person.
Abazi had shot the victim after a quarrel started in Italy where they were both immigrants.
Also in Italy Selman Lika was arrested and he is expecting extradition procedures to bring him back home.
Lika was sentenced in 2000 to 25 years imprisonment for murdering two persons and injured two others with automatic rifles. They had been quarreling on property ownership.

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