[quote=“CBC”]
Rocket caused blast at U.S. embassy compound in Greece: police
An explosion that rocked the U.S. Embassy in Athens early Friday was an “act of terrorism” caused by a rocket fired into the compound, a senior police official said.
No one was injured in the blast, which smashed glass in the front of the building near the U.S. emblem of the embassy. The explosion occurred shortly before 6 a.m. local time.
“This is an act of terrorism. We don’t know where from. There was a shell that exploded in the toilets of the building…It was fired from street level,” Attica Police chief Asimakis Golfis said.
Police cordoned off streets around the embassy. Authorities were searching apartment buildings and a hospital nearby.
Traffic came to a standstill across parts of the city’s downtown as police and emergency services scrambled to the embassy.[/quote]
[quote=“BBC”]
Police said a small rocket-propelled grenade or similar device was fired into the front of the embassy.
Fire engines and police cordoned off the area around the fortified building. The US State Department said there were no injuries.
The BBC correspondent in Athens says the US embassy is often the target of small-scale attacks by radical groups.
Many of the attacks are carried out by small groups following in the footsteps of the disbanded November 17 leftist group, says the BBC’s Malcolm Brabant. [/quote]
Thank goodness they only took out the toilets.