Greek police say fatal Athens apartment blast was likely caused by improvised bomb

Greek constabulary opportunity that an detonation successful an Athens flat that killed a man and severely wounded a female appears to person been caused by an improvised bomb

ATHENS, Greece -- Greek constabulary said connected Friday that an explosion successful an Athens apartment that killed a man and severely wounded a female nan erstwhile time appears to person been caused by an improvised bomb.

Police searching nan wrecked flat seized 2 handguns and ammunition, authorities said successful a statement, arsenic good arsenic mobile phones and different “digital evidence." The connection added that nan blast is being investigated by nan police’s typical convulsive crimes unit.

Firefighters who responded to nan detonation connected Thursday day freed nan wounded female from nan wreckage, and later recovered nan man’s assemblage while utilizing sniffer dogs to hunt nan flat for different survivors, nan occurrence work said.

The injured female is Greek, constabulary said, while nan dormant man has not been identified. No further specifications connected her personality were released.

The detonation successful nan capital’s cardinal residential vicinity of Ambelokipi demolished soul and outer walls successful a third-floor apartment, blowing distant its pavilion railings and damaging neighboring apartments.

Greece has a decades-long history of far-left extremism involving mini municipality groups, while organized crime and racketeering groups person besides carried retired small-scale bombings and targeted killings.

The awesome extremist groups that carried retired a drawstring of assassinations from nan mid 1970s to nan early 2000s person been eradicated and their members imprisoned.

They were succeeded by smaller and little businesslike groups which mostly staged explosive attacks connected symbols of authorities authority and wealth, but person been mostly dormant successful caller years.