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Police are tightening patrols in downtown Athens after a 32-year-old Algerian man was shot and wounded in the city's central Varvakeios Market in the early hours of Saturday.

A 55-year-old lawyer, who has been in intensive care at Evangelismos Hospital since late Friday after she was hit in the leg with a flare during clashes in Exarchia between self-styled anarchists and police, was taken off respiratory support on Wednesday, medics said.

Concerns are growing over an increase in violent attacks by self-styled anarchists, most recently Thursday's firebomb assault against a police precinct in Pefki, northern Athens, that caused no injuries but which police sources said had been intended to shed blood. 

Two would-be robbers wielding assault rifles were thwarted by the owner of a convenience store in Palaio Faliro and his employee when they tried to hold up the business in the early hours of on Tuesday morning.

When the owner refused to hand over his takings, one of the assailants fired his gun into the air as a warning.

Authorities say a pedestrian has died after being struck by a Proastiakos suburban railway train at a level crossing in the area of Sepolia, west of Athens city center, on Wednesday.

The woman was taken to the capital's Evangelismos hospital, where she was pronounced dead. She has not been identified.

The militant guerrilla organization Group of Popular Fighters Tuesday claimed responsibility for planting a bomb at the Labor Ministry in central Athens last December and an explosion outside a Eurobank branch in April.

Former Greek prime minister Lucas Papademos was recovering well from injuries caused by a booby-trapped package exploding in his car on Thursday, with doctors saying he would stay in hospital for two more days.

Papademos, 69, who was caretaker prime minister for a few months at the peak of the debt crisis five years ago, did not have life-threatening injuries, they said.

The Greek counter-terrorism unit is focusing its investigations on where the envelope was sent from, amid fears that a series of similar packages could be sent to domestic targets. Former Greek PM Lucas Papademos, who is in stable condition at Evangelismos hospital, was injured Thursday when a booby-trapped envelope exploded in his vehicle.

Counterterrorism police were on alert on Thursday after former prime minister Lucas Papademos was injured, along with two other people, when a parcel bomb exploded in his car in central Athens.

The explosion occurred at around 6.30 p.m. when Papademos opened an envelope in his car, police said.

Former Greek prime minister Lucas Papademos and two other people were hurt after he opened a letter bomb while in his car in central Athens. 

Papademos reportedly suffered injuries to his hands and legs after opening the parcel.

He was transferred to Evangelismos hospital along with his driver and a body guard who were also injured.