World World The blast - near some of Athens' most visited sites including the Acropolis and the Temple of Zeus - damaged nearby houses, shops and cars and sent rubble and broken glass as far as three blocks away. Emergency personnel work at the site where an old building partially collapsed followi»»»

ATHENS, Sept 26 — The bodies of an American couple visiting Greece were pulled today from an Athens building that collapsed following an explosion, officials said. Four other people were missing, including an elderly British man and a Greek woman who shared an apartment, following the blast that oc»»»

Two people have died and another four are missing after a residential ​building collapsed following an explosion in a tourist area of ‌central Athens, a Greek fire brigade official said on Saturday. The blast on Friday destroyed a two-storey building in Plaka, near some of Athens' most visited site»»»

ATHENS: Rescuers on Saturday pulled the bodies of an American couple from an Athens building that collapsed after an explosion in the historic Plaka district, just below the Acropolis, officials said. Four other people were still missing, including an elderly British man and a Greek woman who share»»»

Fears are growing for a British pensioner who was last seen on the balcony of an Athens building that was destroyed by an explosion after a suspected gas leak. The blast on Friday destroyed the two-storey building in Plaka, ​near some of Athens' most visited sites ​including the Acropolis and the T»»»

Firefighters and members of the Hellenic Fire Service’s special unit for disaster response conduct an overnight search operation amid the rubble of a building following an explosion on Lysikratous Street in Athens. (EPA Images pic) ATHENS: A woman has died and five people are missing after a reside»»»

Athens: A body was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building on Saturday following an explosion in Athens' historic Plaka district, the Greek press agency ANA reported, as rescuers searched for the missing. The victim is believed to be an American tourist who was staying in a holiday rental wi»»»

ATHENS, Sept 26 - A woman has died and five people are missing after a residential building collapsed following an explosion in a tourist area of central Athens, a Greek fire brigade official said on Saturday. The blast on Friday destroyed a two-storey building in Plaka, near some of Athens' most v»»»

Rescue crews recovered the body of a woman early Saturday from the wreckage of a building in Plaka that had been largely destroyed by an explosion the previous morning, the first confirmed death in a disaster that has left five other people missing. The woman was an American tourist who had been st»»»

A powerful explosion collapsed an old two-story building and damaged neighboring structures in Athens' historic Plaka tourist district at the foot of the Acropolis on Friday morning, authorities said. At least three people were injured, including two female tourists rescued by firefighters from an »»»

A powerful blast shook the Greek capital's tourist district of Plaka, near the ancient Acropolis, on Friday morning, causing a building to collapse and injuring at least two people who had to be rescued from an adjacent building, authorities said. The fire department said the explosion occurred in »»»

An Athens court has handed down lengthy prison sentences to two women convicted over a fatal blast in the Ambelokipi district in October 2024 in which one man was killed accidentally when the bomb he was handling exploded. The Three-Member Felony Appeals Court sentenced the injured partner of the m»»»

Four people were killed and seven others injured after an explosion triggered a large fire at a factory in central Greece on Monday, according to Greek authorities. U.S. broadcaster ABC News reported that the injured include a firefighter who was responding to the incident. All those hurt were take»»»

A new extremist group has claimed responsibility for a bomb that exploded near the offices of Hellenic Train, Greece’s main railway services operator, and the planting of another near the Labor Ministry in early February. The explosion on April 11 evening resulted in limited damage and no injuries.»»»

An emerging extremist group, ‘Revolutionary Class Struggle,’ has claimed responsibility for a bomb that exploded Friday, April 11, evening near the offices of Hellenic Train, Greece’s main railway operator, and for a separate device planted near the Labor Ministry in early February. The explosion c»»»