Albanian prosecutors are seeking to try the country s former defence minister over a deadly factory explosion in 2008.
The blast at a munitions depot factory at Gerdec - where stockpiles of ammunition were dumped for destruction - killed 26 people and injured at least 264 others.
Around 5,500 houses were also damaged after the explosion ripped through the region outside the capital Tirana.
Albania s then-defence minister, Fatmir Mediu, was subsequently charged with abuse of power, although the case against him was dropped. He resigned from his governmental position two days after the explosion.
But on Thursday, more than a decade later, prosecutors have asked Supreme Court judges to allow Mediu to go on trial.
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