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No other details were immediately known.
Police are investigating the shooting, Branka said.
Albania which on Tuesday submitted its candidacy for membership of the European Union -- less than a month after joining the Western military alliance NATO -- is to hold parliamentary elections on June 28.
Since the fall of communism in the early 1990s, all elections in Albania -- a predominantly Muslim nation of 3.6 million that remains one of Europe's poorest countries -- have been disputed and marred by incidents.
Last November parliament adopted a new electoral law aimed at preventing fraud.
Albania's left-wing opposition wanted the EU candidacy papers submitted only after the June 28 elections, arguing there was a risk the application would otherwise remain a dead letter for a long time.
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Police are investigating the shooting, Branka said.
Albania which on Tuesday submitted its candidacy for membership of the European Union -- less than a month after joining the Western military alliance NATO -- is to hold parliamentary elections on June 28.
Since the fall of communism in the early 1990s, all elections in Albania -- a predominantly Muslim nation of 3.6 million that remains one of Europe's poorest countries -- have been disputed and marred by incidents.
Last November parliament adopted a new electoral law aimed at preventing fraud.
Albania's left-wing opposition wanted the EU candidacy papers submitted only after the June 28 elections, arguing there was a risk the application would otherwise remain a dead letter for a long time.
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