Explosives

A team from the police's counter-terrorism unit was dispatched to the southeastern Aegean island of Leros on Tuesday morning to lead an investigation into the disappearance of military equipment from a navy base.

When two deminers were killed on August 25  nearby the town of Livno in south-west Bosnia while they were on duty in one of the minefields that still blight the country, it again highlighted the dangers faced by those who are working to clear the remaining unexploded ordnance left over from the 1992-95 war.

The Council of the EU has accepted the introduction of stricter rules on the trade and use of ingredients for the production of explosives.

Three people have been indicted to stand trial after their arrest on Sunday on charges of soccer-related violence and possession of explosive devices, flares and firecrackers during a amateur soccer game in the central Greek town of Agrinio.

According to the report, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and the US are the biggest buyers of Serbian-made arms.

Two people were arrested for illegal possession and transport of explosives in the town of Malesina in central Greece on Wednesday night as they prepared to go fishing with dynamite.

Police in Athens are investigating three separate attacks with homemade explosive devices made of gas canisters, in the early hours of Friday.

Police on Crete are seeking the perpetrators behind a blast targeting a bank ATM outside a supermarket in the seaside village of Maleme, near the port of Hania, late on Friday.

The assailants used a homemade explosive device to blow open the machine before making off with an unknown sum of cash.

An anarchist group calling itself the Iconoclastic Sect has claimed responsibility in a post on a Spanish website for the explosion last month outside the church of Aghios Dionysios in the upmarket Kolonaki district of central Athens.

The post was dated last Wednesday and said that the attack was aimed not only against the Church of Greece but society as a whole.

An anarchist group calling itself the Iconoclastic Sect has claimed responsibility in a post on a Spanish website for the explosion last month outside  the church of Aghios Dionysios in the upmarket Kolonaki district of central Athens.

The post was uploaded last Wednesday saying the attack was aimed not only against the church but society as a whole.