Ano Liosia

The capital's main landfill at Fyli, northwestern Attica, is heading for a third enlargement to deal with overflowing waste, as the construction of new facilities to alleviate the problem are reportedly not expected to be ready before 2021-22.

A 53-year-old local authority worker died on Friday as a result of injuries sustained while on the job, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency has reported.

The unnamed man sustained crushing injuries when the garbage truck he was driving crashed on NATO Avenue in the northern suburb of Ano Liosia at around 5 a.m. in the morning.

A 55-year-old woman was indicted in Athens on Thursday on charges of inflicting bodily harm to babies and resisting arrest, and was given until Friday to prepare her defense.

The woman had been arrested for allegedly scratching babies with her nails or a sharp object on a number of occasions at a mall in Aghios Dimitrios, southern Athens.

Residents near a Roma camp fired shots to intimidate police officers carrying out an inspection in the early hours of Thursday.

The officers of the OPKE crime prevention unit responded with gunfire to the threat from the rooftops of apartment buildings in the area around the camp in Ano Liosia, north of Athens.

Nine officers were slightly injured on Thursday in clashes outside a police precinct in Ano Liosia, northern Athens, with dozens of members of the Roma community, who were protesting the death of a 62-year-man in custody. 

A 30-year-old man who had been on the run since a court convicted him of murder and illegal gun possession in 2011 was arrested in the central Greek town of Larissa Wednesday.

Police in Athens in the early hours of Tuesday exchanged fire with a group of men believed to be behind a string of safe robberies at industrial facilities around Attica and Viotia.

The incident occurred around 4.30 a.m. as officers of the OPKE squad tried to question the passengers of a car in Ano Liosia, northern Athens, following an attempted break-in at a pharmaceutical company.

Police investigating a blast that rocked the northern Athenian suburb of Ano Liosia in the early hours of Monday are looking into the target's personal and professional ties, a report by the ANA-MPA news agency said.

A gang distributing large quantities of contraband cigarettes in Greece has been unraveled, police said Thursday. 

According to Attica Police Chief Christos Papazafiris, more than 16 million cigarettes and 4 tons of tobacco were confiscated.

The amount of money in lost tax and levy revenues, he said, amounted to more than 5 million euros.

Police said they arrested four men aged 18, 19, 21 and 23 on Thursday on suspicion of being part of a gang that robbed taxi drivers in the area of Ano Liosia, northern Athens.

The gang allegedly attacked cabbies during the evening hours. Posing as customers, they would physically assault the drivers, making off with money, mobile phones and other electronic devices.