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Car bomb rocks Greece's central bank
No one injured as car bomb explodes outside Greece’s central bank, just hours before country re-entered global bond market.
A car bomb has exploded outside a Athens central bank, as Greece prepared to enter into international bond markets for the first time since debt crisis.
A car bomb exploded outside a Bank of Greece building in central Athens, smashing windows in nearby shops but causing no injuries, police said.
The blast struck hours before Greece planned its first foray into the international bond markets since it plunged into a debt crisis four years ago, and a day before a visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the bomb. Police however believe that leftist or anarchist groups carried it out.
A police official said someone had anonymously warned a newspaper of the attack about 45 minutes before the explosion.
The caller said the device contained about 70kg of explosives.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but police believed leftist or anarchist groups were behind it, the official said.
Makeshift bomb and arson attacks have escalated since Greece adopted unpopular austerity measures in exchange for financial bailouts by the European Union and International Monetary Fund in 2010.
