Two wounded in Greece after explosion at home of prison guard official | Greece
Two people were injured in a bomb attack in a suburb of Greece, the second city of Greece, and damaged a circle and six automobile blocks.
Early on Saturday morning, the explosion targeted the house of the president of the Greek Prison Guards Association in Sycies suburb.
The guard, defined as Konstantinos on the website of the Association, was not damaged after placing approximately 3 kg explosives next to the front door of the building on the first floor.
Agent France-Presse’ye told, two people were subjected to small injuries from pieces of glass, he said. The explosion was said to have caused a “deafening noise üs in more than 1 km of radius.
Tzetno Kelo, who lives in a adjacent building, said, ım I woke up because of the very high explosion of the explosion, ”he said. “He fell into my bed with shredded window and I was covered with blood.” He was treated in a hospital before being discharged.
88 -year -old Sofia Hatzigeorgiou, who lives alone, said that he had been up to DNEWS, a Greek media organization and discovered that his house was a “summer house :: a large hole was drilled on the wall between the Meszan’s apartment and the bomb placed.
The windows of neighboring buildings were also damaged in the explosion. Local media reports show that the bomb is a “quite simple device ılan triggered by a standard explosive.
Police told Associated Press journalists, a witness, a man walking on the street shortly before the explosion, and their efforts focused on criminal gangs rather than terrorist groups.
VARSAMIS worked for many years in the Diavata prison in the west of Thessaloniki, known to host many guilty gang members and convicted terrorists.
The Greek police force spokesman confirmed that the organized crime unit was led by the preliminary investigation into the incident.
Firefighters, an ambulance and dozens of police officers, including Anti -Terrorist experts, joined the scene. The images of the event, the crowd of people standing outside the building in the middle of the night, some showed in night clothes and slippers. A woman carefully moved through the glass pieces, carrying a cat.
Stratos Simopoulos, the deputy of Thessaloniki, told DNEWS to the explosion scene to support his friend Varsamis: “I had my full support, because I got the same coward attack a few weeks ago. It was much more violent.
“Public officials who perform their duties without compromise may be on the fronts of the threat from such terrorist and criminal actions. I definitely believe that they do not escape,” he said.
