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Bomb blast rocks main Athens square
Forensic experts comb through the remains of a motorcycle after a bomb blast outside the country's Economy Ministry in Athens December 12, 2005. An explosion rocked the ministry in central Athens on Monday, causing some damage but no casualties, a police official told Reuters. It was not immediately clear who was behind the blast. REUTERS/John Kolesdidis
IRIB--Athens, December 12 - Athens' main Syntagma square was rocked by a makeshift explosive device early Monday that sprayed shattered glass and debris over a wide area, a police source said.
The Eleftherotypia daily had received an anonymous phone call about a bomb thirty minutes earlier, the source.
The perpetrators are believed to have set fire to welding gas canisters left by workers at a local building under construction, the police said.
The explosion, which occurred shortly after 6:00 AM (0400 GMT) damaged neighbouring shops and parked cars, but there were no immediate reports of injuries, greek private TV station Mega said.
TV footage showed shattered glass and debris surrounding a building under construction, where the explosion is throught to have taken place.
No group or individual has yet claimed responsibility for the blast.
MA
http://www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=203322
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Al-Masakin News Agency
http://al-masakin.blogspot.com
The Eleftherotypia daily had received an anonymous phone call about a bomb thirty minutes earlier, the source.
The perpetrators are believed to have set fire to welding gas canisters left by workers at a local building under construction, the police said.
The explosion, which occurred shortly after 6:00 AM (0400 GMT) damaged neighbouring shops and parked cars, but there were no immediate reports of injuries, greek private TV station Mega said.
TV footage showed shattered glass and debris surrounding a building under construction, where the explosion is throught to have taken place.
No group or individual has yet claimed responsibility for the blast.
MA
http://www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=203322
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Al-Masakin News Agency
http://al-masakin.blogspot.com
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