Greek woman, 38, killed after bomb intended for bank ATM explodes in her hands

A 38-year-old Greek female was killed Saturday erstwhile a explosive she was allegedly readying to works astatine a slope detonated successful her hands, constabulary said.

The detonation happened successful nan bluish Greek metropolis of Thessaloniki around 5 a.m., damaging respective storefronts and vehicles arsenic nan explosive unexpectedly went off.

“It appears that she was carrying an explosive instrumentality and planned to works it a bank’s ATM,” a elder constabulary charismatic told Reuters.

“Something went incorrect and exploded successful her hands,” nan charismatic added.

Police did not place nan female publicly, but made statement of her criminal history fueled pinch narcotics and prostitution.

She was besides progressive successful astatine slightest 1 robbery, according to police.

Authorities are investigating nan incident, and whether nan female mightiness person had ties to utmost leftist groups.

Greece has a agelong history of politically motivated unit making love backmost to nan 1970s, pinch home extremist groups carrying retired small-scale bombings arsenic good arsenic caller groups precocious emerging.

Saturday’s detonation comes a period aft a caller extremist group called Revolutionary Class Struggle claimed work for an explosion near nan offices of railway institution Hellenic Train, and nan planting of different explosive adjacent nan Labor Ministry successful early February — each portion of an armed struggle against nan state.

With wires