PA official apologizes for illegal arms at Prague embassy
PRAGUE (AFP) -- Palestinian diplomats have apologized for hiding illegal weapons at the Prague embassy where a blast killed the ambassador on New Year's Day, the Czech foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
"A high-ranking Palestinian foreign ministry official... issued an official apology from the Palestinian side for the illegal presence of weapons on the premises of the Palestinian embassy," the ministry said in a statement.
After the deadly blast, police found 12 firearms at the embassy, including sub-machine guns and sidearms that were not officially registered in the Czech Republic.
They have refused further comment on the weapons pending the results of an official probe.
The DNES newspaper said police found Skorpion VZ61 sub-machine guns and VZ82 sidearms produced in the former Czechoslovakia and supplied to the Palestine Liberation Organization before communism fell in Czechoslovakia in 1989.
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