Car bomb detonated in Athens.Summary: One person has been injured after a car bomb exploded outside the Athens stock exchange Athens Stock Exchange Greece's only major securities market. Greek language only. Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) Greece's principal stock exchange. . One person has been injured after a car bomb exploded outside the Athens stock exchange. The device blew out windows on several floors of the building and hurled debris hundreds of metres away. The bourse bourse (b  rs), term applied to a European stock exchange. The first international bourse was established in Antwerp in the 16th cent. opened normally despite suffering extensive damage.
Eight vehicles nearby were set ablaze Verb 1. set ablaze - set fire to; cause to start burning; "Lightening set fire to the forest"set afire, set aflame, set on fire combust, burn - cause to burn or combust; "The sun burned off the fog"; "We combust coal and other fossil fuels" . An anonymous caller warned a Greek newspaper of the attack, apparently aimed at damaging the building but not people. Police say the injured woman is the latest victim in an attack by leftist left·ism also Left·ism n. 1. The ideology of the political left. 2. Belief in or support of the tenets of the political left. left or anarchist groups. They said the make-up of the bomb was similar to others planted by the leftist Revolutionary Struggle, Greece's most militant group
The Militant Group was an early British Trotskyist group, formed in 1935 by Denzil Dean Harber, former leader of the Marxist Group, as an entrist group , which emerged in September 2003 after the capture of the November 17 group. In 2007 it fired a grenade at the U.S. embassy in Athens, hitting its facade, and seriously wounded A casualty whose injuries or illness are of such severity that the patient is rendered unable to walk or sit, thereby requiring a litter for movement and evacuation. See also evacuation; litter; patient. a police officer outside the Culture Ministry in a 2009 shooting. Police said a home-made bomb exploded at the same time outside a government building in the northern city of Thessaloniki, causing minor damage but no injuries. It was not immediately clear if the two attacks were connected. The shooting of a teenager by officers in December 2008 prompted the worst riots in decades. Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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