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

Greek police said Friday that an explosion in an Athens apartment that killed a man and severely wounded a woman appeared to have been caused by an improvised bomb.

Police searching the wrecked apartment seized two handguns and ammunition, authorities said in a statement, as well as mobile phones and other “digital evidence.” The statement added that the blast is being investigated by the police’s special violent crimes unit.

Firefighters who responded to the explosion Thursday afternoon freed the wounded woman from the wreckage, and later found the man’s body while using sniffer dogs to search the apartment for other survivors, the fire service said.

The injured woman is Greek, police said, while the dead man has not been identified. No further details on her identity were released.

The explosion in the capital’s central residential neighborhood of Ambelokipi demolished internal and external walls in a third-floor apartment, blowing away its balcony railings and damaging neighboring apartments.

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