(1 Nov 2024)
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Athens, Greece – 01 November 2024
1. Wide of apartment where explosion took place seen behind police cordon
2. Close-up of police cordon; focus change to show people at apartment building entrance
3. Wide of media seen behind police cordon
4. Close-up of street sign
5. Wide of police and locals at police cordon
6. Close-up of media
7. Greek flag on building
8. Police officer standing on street where explosion took place
STORYLINE:
Greek police investigating an explosion that wrecked an Athens apartment, killing a man and severely wounding a woman, said Friday that the blast appeared to have been caused by the detonation of an improvised bomb.
Police searching the wrecked apartment seized two handguns and ammunition, while the case is being investigated by the police’s special violent crimes unit, authorities said in a statement. Mobile phones and other “digital evidence” were also seized from the wrecked apartment.
Firefighters who responded to the Thursday afternoon incident freed the wounded woman from the wreckage, and later found the man’s body while using sniffer dogs to search the apartment for other survivors, the fire service said.
The man has not yet been identified, while the injured woman is Greek, police said. No further details on her identity were released.
The explosion in the capital’s central residential neighbourhood of Ambelokipi demolished internal and external walls in the third-floor apartment, blew away its balcony railings and damaged neighbouring apartments.
Greece has a decades-old history of far-left extremism involving small urban groups, while organized crime and racketeering groups are also active in the country, carrying out small-scale bombings and targeted killings.
The major extremist groups that carried out a string of assassinations from the mid 1970s to the early 2000s have been eradicated and their members jailed.
They were succeeded by smaller and less efficient groups which mostly staged bomb attacks on symbols of state authority and wealth but had been largely dormant in recent years.
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