Woman killed in Thessaloniki bomb explosion as she ‘planned to target bank
Source: Daily Star – World News
The 38-year-old woman was killed at around 5am Saturday in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki. She was reportedly carrying the bomb to place it outside a nearby bank, police said.
A woman carrying a bomb near a bank tragically died after the device detonated prematurely in her hands, according to the police. The 38-year-old was killed at around 5am on Saturday in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Cops believe she was on a mission to plant the explosive by a local bank.
The blast wrecked several shop fronts and vehicles nearby. The woman wasn’t a stranger to the law, having been involved in a string of past heists, say the police, who are now investigating her potential links with radical factions.
“It appears that she was carrying an explosive device and planned to plant it a bank’s ATM,” a senior cop told the press. “Something went wrong and exploded in her hands,” they added.
Greek’s forensic officers have been scouring the scene, while detectives investigate the case, reports the Mirror.
This incident comes just weeks after a new extremist group owning up to a bomb that blew up close to the offices of Hellenic Train, Greece’s main railway services provider, and another device planted near the Labour Ministry back in early February.
The Friday night explosion caused minor damage and no casualties. The culprits had tipped off the explosion by ringing two media outlets roughly 40 minutes before the bang.
Over on Athens.indymedia.org, a group calling themselves the Revolutionary Class Struggle posted a lengthy explanation last Sunday for their recent bombing activities. They claim it’s all part of an armed rebellion against the state.
The Revolutionary Class Struggle dedicated their explosive actions to “the Palestinian people and their heroic resistance” and also honoured Kyriakos Xymitiris, who died last year in a tragic accident while handling a bomb in a flat in central Athens.
Their statement comes amid a surge of public fury following Greece’s most catastrophic railway disaster in 2023, which saw 57 lives lost and many more injured after a freight train and a passenger train were mistakenly directed onto the same track.
In what reads like a manifesto, the Revolutionary Class Struggle linked the rail tragedy to what they describe as the “murders” of workers through industrial accidents, blaming capitalist exploitation.
Greece is no stranger to political violence; it’s been dealing with homegrown extremist groups since the 1970s. These factions are known for setting off bombs that typically cause property damage but seldom result in injuries.
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