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Italian police in the northern city of Trieste have seized about 800 shotguns en route from Turkey to Belgium. The firearms were packed in separate boxes aboard a Dutch-registered truck that arrived in the port city on a ferry.

Although customs rules were not broken, the Turkish driver did not have licenses for the weapons, police said, BBC Russian Service reports.

The 781 weapons seized in Trieste Tuesday were pump-action 12-51 and 12-47-calibre Winchester SXP shotguns, the police statement says.

Prosecutors are currently going to bring charges.

The Turkish manufacturer of the weapons was found guilt of breaching national security regulations, Ansa news agency reports.

Controls at Italian ports have been beefed up as a result of the Paris terror attacks on 13 November.

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