Subdivisions of Greece

An old hand grenade was discovered in the courtyard of a high school in Siatista, in Kozani, northern Greece, late on Monday.

A team of military bomb disposal experts were dispatched to the scene and subsequently detonated the weapon.

Reports suggested the grenade dated from World War II.

Police in Nafplio in the eastern Peloponnese, have arrested nine suspects in connection to a criminal ring believed to have carried out a string of robberies at homes, rooms-to-let and stores in the regions of Argolida, Corinthia and Attica.

Police believe the suspects, seven Albanian nationals aged 19 to 46 and two Greek men aged 35 and 45, are behind 39 robberies and break-ins.

A new ferry route has been launched by ANES ferry company linking northern Evia to the islands of Skiathos and Skopelos in the Sporades cluster, marking the inauguration of a port in Kymasi, on the northeastern coast of the island.

Firefighters discovered the body of a man on Friday in the debris after extinguishing a large fire that broke out earlier in the day on the third floor of an apartment block on 68 Philadelphias Street in Nikaia, a suburb of Piraeus.

Convicted November 17 terrorist Savvas Xeros was briefly transferred on Tuesday from the high-security Korydallos Prison, where he is serving five life sentences, to a Piraeus court, where he lodged an appeal to continue his punishment under house arrest due to worsening health problems. The court is to issue its decision on June 26.

Authorities in Larissa, central Greece, were investigating on Tuesday the circumstances surrounding the death of an unidentified man whose decapitated body was discovered at the town’s railway station by a security employee.

The man’s head was found a few meters away from the body. The victim was believed to be between 60 and 65 years of age.

A decision by regional authorities to close the road that leads to one of Greece's most popular beaches on the Ionian island of Cephalonia as it undergoes repairs raised a storm of reactions from local tourism businesses on Tuesday.

A 55-year-old Polish tourist was fatally injured at the Kalypso Gorge in Karitsa, Larissa, central Greece on Monday.

A Pakistani national died while a 50-year-old Cretan businessman was in critical condition in Ierapetra, in Lasithi, Crete, after allegedly being attacked by a Pakistani man late on Saturday.

Early reports suggested the suspect killed his compatriot in a shop where the latter was working before attacking the entrepreneur with a meat cleaver at a nearby taverna.

By Vangelis Mandravelis

State bailout fund TAIPED is moving ahead with its plans for the utilization of three major state properties, the Olympic facilities at Galatsi and Markopoulo and the Sambariza property at Ermioni, all in Attica.