Bulqizë

Vjollca Gjelleshi closed a difficult chapter six years ago when she decided to swap her hammer for a small business selling second-hand shoes.

Gjelleshi had spent 14 years working in the mines of her hometown, Bulqiza, in northeastern Albania, half of that time separating chrome from stone and loading it into buckets.

Prosecutors in Albania summoned a mayor for questioning on Thursday over a video filmed by a security camera from above, showing someone apparently snorting cocaine.

Tirana was shocked on Wednesday by a multiple murder in the city. Police said that Mentor Lufi, 39 and Gerti Goxhaj, 32, had just entered their BMW car at 7.20pm when two suspected assassins opened fire, killing them both.