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Blast rips through US embassy in Athens
Friday, 12 January 2007
ATHENS: An explosion ripped through the US embassy compound in central Athens on Friday, police said.
It was not clear what caused the blast and there was no immediate word on whether there were any casualties.
"We are investigating the cause of the explosion. We are not ruling anything out," a senior police official said.
Dozens of police cars surrounded the embassy and police cordoned off all roads in the area, including a major boulevard in front of the mission.
The senior police official did not say whether the explosion was set off inside the compound or whether something might have been thrown into the embassy grounds.
Police officials at the scene said that whatever caused the explosion damaged the official embassy sign outside the mission, but there was little other indication of the extent of damage inside.
The tightly guarded building is surrounded by a 3-metre-high steel fence. Guards are posted at every entrance and at street corners around it.
Embassy officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
Local residents called in to state television saying they had felt the explosion, which shattered some windows.
Blast rocks US embassy in Athens
The US embassy is a focal point for dissent in Athens
An explosion has hit the US embassy compound in the centre of the Greek capital, Athens.
Police said a small rocket-propelled grenade or similar device was fired into the front of the embassy.
Fire engines and police cordoned off the area around the fortified building. The US State Department said there were no injuries.
The BBC correspondent in Athens says the US embassy is often the target of small-scale attacks by radical groups.
Many of the attacks are carried out by small groups following in the footsteps of the disbanded November 17 leftist group, says the BBC's Malcolm Brabant.
'Windows shattered'
Emergency services rushed to the embassy, which is on one of Athens' main boulevards, after reports of an explosion shortly before 0600 (0400 GMT).
What appeared to be a rocket propelled grenade was fired at the front of the building, just above the US emblem.
According to eyewitnesses, it penetrated the building and caused a small fire.
Television pictures showed a mass of emergency vehicles and stationary traffic outside the embassy as the area was sealed off.
Greek police said a shell was fired from street level through the front of the building and landed in a toilet.
"This is an act of terrorism. We don't know where from," Attica Police Chief Asimakis Golfis told the Associated Press.
The blast was powerful enough to break windows in nearby buildings, reports said.
Why terrorists don't leave Greece alone. Bomb on your land, if you have balls take it up with US And Australian soldiers on your own land.'Be a man! Fight like a man!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6254399.stm
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21048503-2,00.html
Blast rips through US embassy in Athens
Friday, 12 January 2007
ATHENS: An explosion ripped through the US embassy compound in central Athens on Friday, police said.
It was not clear what caused the blast and there was no immediate word on whether there were any casualties.
"We are investigating the cause of the explosion. We are not ruling anything out," a senior police official said.
Dozens of police cars surrounded the embassy and police cordoned off all roads in the area, including a major boulevard in front of the mission.
The senior police official did not say whether the explosion was set off inside the compound or whether something might have been thrown into the embassy grounds.
Police officials at the scene said that whatever caused the explosion damaged the official embassy sign outside the mission, but there was little other indication of the extent of damage inside.
The tightly guarded building is surrounded by a 3-metre-high steel fence. Guards are posted at every entrance and at street corners around it.
Embassy officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
Local residents called in to state television saying they had felt the explosion, which shattered some windows.
Blast rocks US embassy in Athens
The US embassy is a focal point for dissent in Athens
An explosion has hit the US embassy compound in the centre of the Greek capital, Athens.
Police said a small rocket-propelled grenade or similar device was fired into the front of the embassy.
Fire engines and police cordoned off the area around the fortified building. The US State Department said there were no injuries.
The BBC correspondent in Athens says the US embassy is often the target of small-scale attacks by radical groups.
Many of the attacks are carried out by small groups following in the footsteps of the disbanded November 17 leftist group, says the BBC's Malcolm Brabant.
'Windows shattered'
Emergency services rushed to the embassy, which is on one of Athens' main boulevards, after reports of an explosion shortly before 0600 (0400 GMT).
What appeared to be a rocket propelled grenade was fired at the front of the building, just above the US emblem.
According to eyewitnesses, it penetrated the building and caused a small fire.
Television pictures showed a mass of emergency vehicles and stationary traffic outside the embassy as the area was sealed off.
Greek police said a shell was fired from street level through the front of the building and landed in a toilet.
"This is an act of terrorism. We don't know where from," Attica Police Chief Asimakis Golfis told the Associated Press.
The blast was powerful enough to break windows in nearby buildings, reports said.
Why terrorists don't leave Greece alone. Bomb on your land, if you have balls take it up with US And Australian soldiers on your own land.'Be a man! Fight like a man!